Actually ideas are everywhere. It's the paperwork, that is, sitting down and thinking them into a coherent story, trying to find just the right words, that can and usually does get to be labor.
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Ideas sometimes come from nowhere, and sometimes they take lots of thinking.
I have reached the point where I know that as long as I sit down to write, the ideas will come. What they will be, I don't know.
I have ideas all of the time from the beginning, but they never really wind up turning out like I thought they would.
Actually, after while, finding the ideas is the easy part. Sorting them through and turning them into stories, now, that's the hard work.
I wish somebody had given me the news that ideas don't just fall on your head like fairy dust. You have to treat that like a job. You have to spend hours each day, where you're just like, 'This is the part of the day when I'm looking for an idea.'
In all seriousness, people think that it's the ideas that are important. Well, everyone has ideas, all the time. I tend to write mine down and remember them, but at some point you have to apply the bum to the seat and knock out about sixty five thousand words - that's how long a novel is.
A lot of writing is thinking.
The hardest thing is the idea. Ideas come from somewhere but as far as we know they come from nowhere.
Ideas come from somewhere. People don't come up with these ideas from nowhere. Something triggers your thoughts.
An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought.
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