Good morning, squiders! It’s Wednesday, so I suppose we should get to work for the week. Today, continuing on with our inspiration theme, we’re going to talk about an endless font of ideas: other people. There’s a reason ‘people watching’
Where to Find Story Ideas: Pictures
Continuing on with our story idea theme, Squiders, today we’ll be discussing pictures. There is a reason that they say a picture is worth a thousand words. Pictures can and often are a great way to find story ideas at
Where to Find Ideas: Story Prompts
Today, Squiders, we’re going to jump into places to look for inspiration, either for specific purposes, to build up your story idea file(s), or just to troll around and see if anything catches your fancy. And what better place to
Keeping Track of Story Ideas
Good morning, Squiders! Today we’re jumping back into our nonfiction series on story idea generation. I was going to go over where to go looking for ideas, but it occurred to me that perhaps it would be best to talk
Why Go Looking for Writing Ideas?
First of all, squiders, I apologize for disappearing off the grid. Normally when I go out of town I pre-write and schedule the posts, but we took a spontaneous trip last week and I didn’t have time to get things
Dream Structure
I don’t know if we’ve talked about this before, Squiders, but I dream in stories. It’s very odd. (The main plotline for Shards came directly from a dream, actually.) Not all the time, certainly, but quite often, especially if I’m
The Evolution of an Idea
Anthologies are always interesting. First you’ve got to come up with a theme for the overall anthology, and then you’ve got to come up with a story that fits for it. When we started brainstorming for Seasons Eternal, we had
Ideas: Face Off and Hot Set
I know I’ve been talking a lot about television lately, and I apologize. It’s just that I’m spending more time in front of ye olde boob tube these days because of changes in my life and so I think about
An Appreciation of Haunted Collector
As you know, Squiders, I appreciate the odd ghost hunting show. Which is why I like Haunted Collector, because it does something different. In the past, there’s been two types of ghost show: one where we recreate “true” experiences, and
Following the White Rabbit
Let’s say you’re walking along, minding your own business, when BAM a story idea waylays you. It’s interesting, it’s fun, it has all the information you need to sit down and get going. Let us also assume that you are
