How do authors come up with ideas?
The Idea Hunt
How do authors come up with ideas?
Where do story ideas come from? Do authors have a secret door in their brain that swings open at midnight? Do ideas arrive by mail in tiny envelopes? The truth is wilder than that — and it starts with noticing.
Most ideas begin with a question. An author sees something ordinary — a pair of mismatched socks, a dog barking at nothing, a door left open in the rain — and thinks, "What if?" What if the socks were from different universes? What if the dog saw ghosts? That tiny question is the spark.
