Where Do Ideas Come From?

It is a question as old as writing. Where do ideas come from? I don't know, if I had an easy answer I would not have to worry about coming up with ideas myself, right? Well, actually, that is right.

Ideas are everywhere. There is no shortage of things to write about. Pick a subject and look around. You'll see at least one thing you can think of something to say about something around you, and you can probably fit that into your chosen topic.

Narrow that topic a bit now, focus on say three things, specific things, that you could write about the thing. Now, pick one of those and refine it, prune the excess from the edges until your topic is fine tuned down to a single focal point and write on.

Ideas are everywhere. The hard part is not in finding them, but in refining them.