Part 2: The Things that Inspire you to Write
For some reason, writers don’t like to talk about where they get their ideas. And to the outside observer, it seems like writers magically get their ideas from the thin air.
In this series of posts, I hope to break down some of this mystery and maybe help you stop worrying and start writing.
In my previous entry, I said that writers don’t like to answer this question, because they’re busy doing harder tasks. Writing a story—that’s both entertaining and coherent—is far more difficult than coming up with an idea.
But to newcomers who want to jump into the craft of writing fiction, getting a fresh, original, and interesting idea can seem daunting.
So, let’s start out simple: what do you love?
I’m not talking about big things like family or God, but the things that inspired you to write in the first place.
Many accomplished writers started out very young. Long before they published a book, they were writing as children. They’ve been writing for so long, they don’t even think about how they get ideas. Their creative subconscious is so used to churning up new combinations of things, it’s second nature.
But you have to start somewhere. You might as well start out with the stories you already love.