Where Do Writers Get Their Ideas? [Roundup]
Working writers answer the classic question with specifics: observation, memory, dreams, and relentless curiosity. A roundup of real sources of ideas.
Writer Roundups
Working writers answer the big questions about the craft, the business, and the life. Hundreds of authors, one question at a time, in their own words.
Real Answers From Real Writers
Each roundup poses one question to a wide circle of working writers and collects their unedited answers. What made you become a writer? Where do your ideas come from? What was the hardest scene you ever wrote? The questions are simple. The answers, gathered across hundreds of authors, are far from simple.
No single writer holds the whole truth about the craft. That is the point of a roundup. Read enough of these responses side by side and the individual voices start to agree, and a clearer picture of how writers really work comes into view. Browse the collection below, hear from the contributors in their own words, and see how much of your own experience you recognize.
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These roundups come from writers across the community, and there is room for yours. If you have a list worth sharing, get in touch. Richard Lowe has authored 113+ books and ghostwritten 54+ more, and gives other writers a place to be read.