Some writers find it difficult to come up with their own story ideas. If they want to write, they struggle and eventually ask someone else for and idea. Now, I'm not saying it's a bad thing to talk to someone else about your story to help you along, but at least come up with the base plot that's strong enough to hold its own and can be expanded on before you go talking to a family member or a friend. I hate it when I'm searching the web and come across a question like this, "Hey everyone! I want to write a novel but I don't have any ideas. Can you give me some?"There are many things wrong with this question. First of all, they're my ideas. If I gave them to you, well then they wouldn't be mine would they? Imagine me, going to the book store, only to find a book about my original idea, written by someone else. That would really miff me off.
That brings me to my next point. If I were to give you my ideas, you'd get to the second page and stop writing because, guess what, they're my ideas and you don't know how to expand on them!
I have the complete opposite problem of a person like this. I make up so many different plot ideas that I don't have time to write them all down. And believe it or not, most of them would be good enough to turn into a novel; meaning they're not just nonsense stories.
Along those lines, when I'm asked to write a short story for school, my mind just wanders and expands the idea I come up with to the point where I'm writing an excerpt of a trilogy I just came up with instead of the short story I was supposed to write.
I have to limit myself to writing down only the best of the best ideas, and right now, I have enough ideas written to keep me busy for quite some time.
Do you like to write? And if so, how are you at coming up with ideas?
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