Write the Ideas You Can’t Get Out of Your Head

When you start to show up every day as a writer, certain ideas pop into your head and stick with you day after day.

Sometimes you try to write out these ideas and you are not ready yet. Sometimes you think an idea is one thing but then it morphs into something completely new and better. It is amazing how things things grow and develop over time.

Stephen King says that writing down book ideas is a great way to immortalize bad ideas. Judy Blume keeps an idea notebook, but she admits that she ha...