Source: We Pardon PiBoIdMo for a Brief Announcement: Happy Book Birthday, LITTLE RED!
Congratulations! Can’t wait to read this new picture book.
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Yes, the search for the perfect idea ever consumes writers, doesn’t it? Or the frantic scramble for paper and pen to jot down notes…
In the last few months, I’ve found myself running around Hampstead Heath thinking ‘I need to find an idea for a short story.’ Thanks to sites like Creative Writing Ink, I’ve got a monthly alert of short story competitions and deadlines for magazine submissions, all laid out on my Google calendar. The problem is, I don’t have that much of a back catalogue yet, so for each one I need to come up with something new. And, funnily enough, simply trying to think of ‘a story idea’ doesn’t work. Trust me.
As far as non-fiction stuff is concerned, I find that much easier to spark ideas. Usually, the book(s) I’m currently reading give me more than enough scope to rattle on for a few hundred words. Either the ideas explored in the book, or the way it’s written, allows me to go off on a personal tangent into my…
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