Deigan Marie asked Millie Florence:

How do you come up with good book ideas? And are you a person who gets lots of ideas all the time, or do you only get one or two every now and then?

Millie Florence I'm the sort of person who has an abundance of ideas and not enough time to write them all.

When it comes to finding story ideas I have a few tips:
1. Carry a notebook with you so that you can write any ideas you have down, whether they might be dialogue snippets, metaphor ideas, or character descriptions, right when the inspiration strikes.
2. Relax. As the saying goes, a watched pot never boils. In the same way, if you’re constantly checking to see if you have any ideas, your brain will stress out. And a stressed-out brain is not a creative brain.
3. Look back at some of your old story ideas and see if you can transform them into something new. The idea for my book Lydia Green of Mulberry Glen, actually came, in part, from a story I wrote when I was around six, called Lydia and the Forever Living Land.

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