The Metamorphis of an Idea

by Margie Senechal

The number one question writers are asked has got to be, "Where do you get your ideas?" For writers, it's an easy and hard question to answer.

Some days you feel like, "Where don't I get my ideas?" Other days, it's "I wish I knew." and still others, "I steal them."

For me, the initial idea is easy. I have a folder of ideas--along with sticky notes scattered along my desk, news clippings on my bulletin board--to prove it. 

The real work comes in the harvesting of the idea....