Episode 9: Where do you get your ideas? With Mo Willems — Kids Ask Authors
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Episode 9: Where do you get your ideas? With Mo Willems — Kids Ask Authors
Collections of ideas are veins of gold in our universe. They must be cherished and protected.
Hank Green • A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor: A Novel (The Carls Book 2)
Many years ago, on a Sunday, I was home writing a new project and the work felt labored and forced. I was not having a good workday. The phone rang and it was Steve, who was in a similar state of mind with a project he was working on. We chatted for a while—always a treat—and then I hung up and decided to take a break. I went and turned on the TV a
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Trust your obsessions. This is one I learned more or less accidentally. People sometimes ask whether the research or the idea for the story comes first for me. And I tell them, normally the first thing that turns up is the obsession: for example, all of a sudden I notice that I’m reading nothing but English 17th century metaphysical verse. And I kn... See more
Something Charlie Chaplin said: "Over the years I have discovered that ideas come through an intense desire for them; continually desiring, the mind becomes a watch-tower on the look-out for incidents that may excite the imagination - music, a sunset, may give image to an idea.
I would say, pick a subject that will stimulate you, elaborate it and in
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