Where Do Authors Get Their Ideas From? I Asked A Bunch of Them!
People often ask, Where do authors get their ideas from? Well, I’ve asked a bunch of them, and here’s what they said…
Morgan Greene
‘I’m lucky that they kind of just spark themselves from things around me. I might hear a snippet of a conversation, see a TV show or movie, read a book and home in on a certain scene… Inspiration comes from all sorts of places. You just take that little spark and blow on it. Sometimes it burns out. Sometimes it becomes an ember, then a flame, then a fire, and suddenly, it’s a book.’
Adrian Tchaikovsky
‘Steve. You know, Steve the Ideas Guy. He’s great.’
Alesha Dykema
‘Everywhere. TV, books, conversations, people-watching. I take it all in and my imagination does the rest.’
Philip Fracassi
‘Everyplace and everywhere. Ideas are like sneezes, they come to you when you least expect it. It can be spurred by something you read, something you see, something you hear, something you dream. Not all ideas are sticky, though. It’s the sticky ones, that ones that grow, that become stories.’
Melanie Bokstad Horev
‘Sadly… the world we live in. Reality is a better dystopia writer than I’ll ever be.’