In a post on the BookBaby blog, Lee Purcell talks about generating ideas. “Most writers don’t have any idea where their ideas come from,” Purcell admits. Stuck for ideas for his article, Purcell turned to Google to see what other writers said:
- Jennie Nash: “Planning to write another book on the same theme as my last two or three or four makes me feel a little bit like it’s all I know how to do. In any case, this idea became the idea because of the noise it made. That’s how writers get their ideas: they listen to what’s making noise in their head.”
- Lore Segal: “As a writer, I think of myself an expert of mindfullness. Whatever I experience, whether of pleasure, anxiety, sadness, puzzlement, or the day’s nasty news will agitate to understand itself in words, and what demands expression today is the consciousness of an empty mind.”
- Neil Gaiman: “You get ideas when you ask yourself simple questions. The most important of the questions is just, ‘What if…?’”
