5 Places I’ve Found Inspiration for Stories — #upbeatauthors

Writers are often asked where they get the ideas for their stories. Readers are genuinely curious, but writers sometimes have a tough time answering that question. Some stories come into your head with a bang! and some arrive kicking and screaming. Every book is different.

Some ideas pop into a writer’s head after overhearing a snippet of conversation between strangers, or while watching a TV show or movie (I’d have done that differently!), or from a news story, and some from our own life exp...