Dig down deep and daydream about your younger years. Recall incidents, feelings, and experiences and get ready to catch those story ideas as they spring to mind!
Thanks, Karen and Tara!
via STORYSTORM 2018 Day 19: Karen Rostoker-Gruber Digs Down Deep
When worlds collide? Check out this fun way to come up with story ideas. 🙂
Thanks, Jarrett and Tara!
via STORYSTORM 2018 Day 18: Worlds Collide for Jarrett Lerner
Ooh, making lists of things we are curious about and things that capture our imagination and things we love! This is the perfect way to fly deep and dig up ideas for picture books!
Thanks, Michelle! Thanks, Tara!
Not every day comes with a deluge of perfect picture book ideas. Some days ideas might shower down for future projects while other days are as dry as the Sahara Desert. Nada.
Thanks, Tami, for your encouraging words. Thanks, Tara, for STORYSTORM!
via STORYSTORM 2018 Day 16: Tami Charles Might Fail (and that’s OK!)
Dreams are amazing (and weird and sometimes terrifying). But they can also be a source of ideas for stories. The important thing to do is to write down your dreams as soon as you wake up, or, POOF, the ideas will be gone. Not that my dream last night of spell-checking the name of my granddaughter’s teacher would make a good story…but still. You get the idea! Write it down.
Thanks, Melissa! Thanks, Tara!
Do you need resources? This post (and Rachelle’s site) are chock full of anything a writer could need! Wow!
Thanks, Rachelle! Thanks, Tara!
Me? You? We are the main ingredients for coming up with ideas for new writing projects. Yes, that’s correct. We writers are the main ingredient. What does that mean? As writers, we need to listen to what interests us or causes us to ask questions like What if? or Why did that happen?.
Me? I’m going to be the main ingredient. Chocolate.
Thanks, Lori and Tara!
via STORYSTORM 2018 Day 13: Lori Mortensen Finds the Main Ingredient
Doing nothing (work related) allows the creative part of our brains to stew. Let ideas cook on the back burner. I do this, but I realize I also need to value the time to takes for those germs of stories and projects to come to a full boil and be ready to move up to the front of the stove. Patience sounds like a desirable character trait! 🙂
Do nothing!
Thanks, Alicia! Thanks, Tara!
Sue is perfectly correct. Ideas can come from any person, place, thing, situation, encounter… This creative process is certainly difficult to explain to someone who doesn’t wake up in the middle of the night to write down an idea or grasps any bit of paper to jot down the perfect character before the idea is lost. Great post!
Thanks, Sue! Thanks, Tara!
via STORYSTORM 2018 Day 11: Sue Fliess Listens to Her Handyman…?
Oh, I am totally on board with this! Keep every single idea! Some will be good, some not so good, some good now, others won’t be ready until years from now.
The big thing is to keep them all. Now. If I would take that next step and LOOK at my files of ideas…
via STORYSTORM 2018 Day 10: Heidi E. Y. Stemple Keeps Every Single One
Thanks, Heidi! Thanks, Tara!
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