SPA Girls Podcast – EP356 – Running With Your Ideas

This week we talk about how to find new ideas, and how to use those ideas in new ways. How to find them in the everyday hustle and bustle of our lives, and how to turn them on their heads to create something intriguing and interesting to our readers. 

We go through a series of story starters, of intriguing kernels that you can use to create an awesome story that your readers will love to read… 

SHOW NOTES:

Places to find ideas:

🌺 Invent something from irritation – create a list of everything that annoys you, and try to find a way to use it in your writing.

🌺 Change the weather – put in a storm, make it rain, put them in a heatwave. All things that will change how the characters will act.

🌺 Use writing prompts – for example Reedsy writing prompts – https://blog.reedsy.com/creative-writing-prompts/

🌺 Create something from a mash up – for example two tropes that don’t usually go together. An example could be Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.

🌺 It can be something small – one of the characters in Wendy’s book has a pet duck and her readers love it.

🌺 Find something funny about a particular situation.

🌺 Adjust the focus – write it from a different character’s viewpoint, or put the scene in a different setting, or take them out of their comfort zone, like a fish out of water scene.

🌺 Do the opposite – flip, reverse, and rotate. Make the familiar strange.

🌺 Turn up the heat – make things worse for your characters, add to their troubles.

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