Where Do My Ideas Come From?

Where do my ideas come from? That’s a question friends, family, and fans have been asking me for years now. How do I come up with so many different plots and characters? How do I create the varied worlds and magical powers that make my stories unique? I’ve always shrugged and said they just come to me, but it’s a little more complicated than that.

Each one of my stories started as a little seed in my head. I might think of one character or a bit of scenery. Sometimes it&rsqu...