One of the biggest challenges when you’re writing fiction is finding truly good ideas. We discussed finding great ideas in a recent writers’ group meeting.
Many authors procrastinate because their ideas don’t seem big enough. They want inspiration to flash down like a bolt of lightning, hitting them with an idea which delivers a bestselling book.
Unfortunately, even after you’re inspired with an amazing idea, you’ll need to develop it and that may be difficult.
One author in our group said that she’d worked with an idea for six months before she gave up on the novel. “I got bogged down in research,” she said. “Time passed. I wasn’t writing. Finally I realized that I could spend another six months on research and still not feel comfortable writing the novel.”
Bad things happen. Browse the online news sites, and within five minutes you’ll have a slew of ideas which will work if you’re writing mysteries or thrillers.
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