The age old question: How did you come up with your book idea? I find it to be somewhat a broad question. Ideas, in my opinion, are an extension of one's state of mind. Dare I say ideas are a state of mind? "Dare to think!" as Immanuel Kant would say.
'How did you come up with your book idea?' Well, I did not come up with it. I daydreamed about it during endless business meetings. I lived it in my mind during my darkest days when not a single soul knew what was going on with me. I once wrote a poem about a teacher who bullied me relentlessly, for months, in class. Every period, during their class, I would add a verse or two. After three months, the poem was six pages long. They found out about it and I was sent to the principal's office. They did not take kindly to how the poem ended with their demise. There was no idea behind my poem but a state of mind. I was in a state of mind in this person's classroom. Outside that room, I never once took that poem out of my book bag.
Themes, antagonists, protagonists, places, etc are ideas. Yes, they are. Stories are ideas. Plots are ideas. Everything is an idea. Good and poor ideas. All are brought on by states of mind...
Published on March 29, 2019 19:00