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My book ideas come from a variety of sources, including personal experiences, current events, conversations with others, and inspiration from other works of literature or art. Sometimes a simple image or phrase sparks an idea that develops into a full story.
You get ideas for books from your imagination. The idea has to be of you interest and it is a story you wish to be alive.
First you think about what age group you want your story to be for, e.g: Children, Teens or Adults.
You then pick a category for the type of the book, you have to pick whether it is Mystery, Romance, Science Fiction, Horror, Adventure, Young adult, etc...
Remember the book or story has to be an area of your interest and knowledge.
Once you know what genre you are going to write in, you can whip up an idea from everyday live. Ideas can come from thoughts of curiosity you get over the day. Keep a notebook with you at all times in case of any book ideas coming to you. with practice, your imagination's range would expand and you would easily get amazing thoughts for writing.
When you got an idea, you can finally shape more details into it. Create the main characters, side characters and information about them.
Then you start writing. It is usually hard to start from the beginning, and if you have some trouble writing it you try to start form any other point in the story as most authors do.
When you have your story/book done, you then revise and edit it. Ask others for their opinions about your story. Take note that they also need to edit it for you, because sometimes you cannot see your mistakes; let others try and point them out.
Authors get story ideas from their imagination and their experiences. Writers are observant people, and observant people come up with ideas. If you would like to come up with original ideas, try some of the following:
JK Rowling thought of the names of the houses: Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw, Slytherin, and Gryffindor; she came up with them on an airplane trip and recorded them on the back of a sick bag.
he gets his ideas from scanning the newspapers.
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Some kickback ideas for teens are read a good book and study for school.
a history book
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My ideas are a picture of a pen or a picture of the book cover.
Writers can think of their own ideas. Use your ideas to write your own stories.
Do the Lucky Charm cereal box that will give you ideas
The author of the book Enders Game has used philosophy as evidence to support his ideas about the gay people.
If you're smart, you won't!! If you have ideas, write your own book -- if you don't want to, sell the ideas. Don't just give away good ideas.