Where Do Stories Come From?

In the top five questions authors are asked is: “Where do you get your stories?”

When asked this I quickly said, “the Amazon story store.” I mean, Amazon sells live lady bugs and rents goats, why not sell stories? But alas, I had to stop saying that because too many wannabe write-a-book-in-a-weekend writers asked me for the link.

Here’s the real skinny people.

Writers are blessed/cursed with imaginations. Wild, vivid imaginations. As Addison pointed out yesterday, “Our imagination is capable...