Do you want a steady supply of book ideas?
Every writer wants one.
It’s very simple.
Writing prompts.
I realized several years ago that I can come up with enough writing prompts to keep other writers busy their entire careers. Not all of them resonate with me. Several have been nightmares I’ve dealt with, such as stranded on top of an office building, no way down – and the city is abandoned.
That will get you.
How do you take advantage of this?
Well, every novelist should be active on social media, of course. Just try to write out one writing prompt every Wednesday. Even doing just that, one writing prompt a week, will give you 52 ideas for novels in one year.
I’ve written perhaps 700 writing prompts. That’s really a massive number. I’ll never write that many novels in my lifetime.
Help yourself to some of mine. After all, I can’t use them all. And if you did use one of the ones I’ll develop – no worries. It won’t end up my book, because we’ll both write them differently. Your pacing won’t be mine. Your plot will develop differently. Even if we take our midpoints and our three act pacing… your novel won’t be identical to mine.
Writing is not really competitive.
