I don't think finding story ideas is difficult. If you went on a journey of asking any author whether it was difficult to find story ideas, you would only need to point to the millions of published books, and that author would have to agree that finding story ideas is easy. We exist in a sea of stories. What an author would say then is that finding unique story ideas is difficult. And I used to agree with this sentiment. I would worry that the story I told would be too similar to another's story idea. And if my story idea was too similar, I am just putting out some odd inferior clone of a book already on the market.
Today, I do not think the process of generating story ideas is difficult at all. In fact, I find it to be one of the most fun aspects of the creative process. This is because I have found a way to find story ideas and develop those story ideas into something that has not been seen before.

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I don't think finding story ideas is difficult. If you went on a journey of asking any author whether it was difficult to find story ideas, you would only need to point to the millions of published books, and that author would have to agree that finding story ideas is easy. We exist in a sea of stories. What an author would say then is that finding unique story ideas is difficult. And I used to agree with this sentiment. I would worry that the story I told would be too similar to another's story idea. And if my story idea was too similar, I am just putting out some odd inferior clone of a book already on the market.
Today, I do not think the process of generating story ideas is difficult at all. In fact, I find it to be one of the most fun aspects of the creative process. This is because I have found a way to find story ideas and develop those story ideas into something that has not been seen before.

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Maybe you are looking at the world around you and all you see is a mass of gray blobs that are hard to differentiate from one another. Life seems boring. Life seems static. Life is heavy on your shoulders, and when you decide you want to write a book, you do not see anything that you can use as inspiration. This is a problem. Since nothing is truly original, we must depend on the things around us for ideas. We must draw ideas from the world, distill it through our psyche, and synthesize it into a new form of art. I have good news. The world has endless ideas to use. The world has so many ideas that if you open up your eyes and mind to them, you'll likely drown. Here are five fertile areas you can look into to find excellent ideas.

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Are you someone who looks enviously at others who are able to come up with ideas without effort. If that is the case, this episode is for you. These epiphanies writers, artists, musicians, etc. . . have do not come from nowhere. They are a specific mental process. It only looks like these people are able to arrive at ideas magically because they have developed a specific way of looking at and thinking about the world. "So, what?" you answer. "How does that help me?" If you are able to understand this thinking process, you can practice it, and after you have taken enough time practicing, it will be come a more natural way of thinking.

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Sometimes it seems like media is central to our modern world. It is easy to be entertained every second of the day. I can open up one of the many video or audio streaming services and watch or listen all day long. One thing that is important to remember is that art and creative work are things that exist in the margins. But just because these things are in the margins does not mean they are unimportant.

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Every artist exists within a context. That context is called culture, and every artistic piece is reflecting and reacting to that culture. In this week's episode, I talk about the importance of why a person should study and understand their culture. I believe it allows the artist to create better art with more depth.

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Stories are wrapped up in their main characters. I would argue that the characters are the most important part of stories. When we look at characters, it is important to match the correct character to the story. A middle-aged man would not be a good main character for Harry Potter. Citizen Kane would not work if the main character was lazy. The character is important to what story is told.

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A trend was once more prominent in the music industry. This trend was to write song lyrics that meant nothing. As authors, we should always seek to fill everything we write with meaning.

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Most writers know what purple prose is. Most try to make their writing contain as little writing as possible. I call this skinny writing. In this week's episode, I talk about the utility of purple prose and skinny writing, when we should use both, and why I think that our writing culture has shifted toward writing "skinny" rather than writing "purple."

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Begging the Question does not mean that you are asking a specific question. Begging the Question is a logical fallacy that looks at whether someone is making arguments for their basic ideas or is merely making assumptions. When we look at Begging the Question, it can teach us authors to look at our fundamental beliefs and determine whether we actually believe them.

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