Where Do You Get Your Ideas From? (Tales From A Writer's Desk Book 3)

One of the most commonly asked questions a writer hears is: "Where do you get your ideas?" This question seems to baffle and mystify people who don't write, as well as people who want to write but don't know where to start. Sometimes it seems as though the top selling authors are just well springs of ideas. New writers see this and become intimidated, feeling that they can never come up with so many great ideas.

Is there a secret to how writers come up with one great idea after another? Yes, there is. There is a secret to how we come up with endless ideas to write endless stories. I know the answer to that great big mystical secret, a secret so simple, you’ll wonder why you didn’t already know the answer.

This is the ORIGINAL (unexpanded and unrevised) article EXACTLY as it appeared on Squidoo way back in 2007 .