Ideas: Where Do You Get Them From?

Back many years ago, when I was still in high school, I had finished writing my "third novel". Back then, my best fans were a few of my friends, especially since I based the main characters on them. One of them, Joseph, asked me, "Where do you get all of your ideas from?"

At the age of sixteen, I shrugged to that answer. Ideas seem to come from everywhere for me and, even now that I have hit forty-four, I still find ideas jump out at me unexpectedly. The trick is to be ready for them.

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