How Ideas Are Born

Here are several writer’s thoughts on where ideas come from (paraphrasing is my own):

Stephen King – Don’t bother to look for ideas, just learn to recognise them when they show up. Ann Patchett – The ideas are already in you – just write them down. Umberto Eco – When a good idea comes to you just put some flesh on it, i.e. just write about it. Robert C Day – Sit down and write about the first idea that pops in your head whilst trusting that the idea was just waiting for you to pay it some at...