Leslie commented:
I wish ideas came to me as quickly as they do you, girl.
But I have to admit, ideas for story premises come to me very rarely. Sometimes I despair that I’ll ever be able to write another story. I don’t have a folder full or a head full of ideas. I do have a cyber-folder that has about 4 stories in various stages of completion, but that’s it.
The only time story premise ideas come to me is when I turn off the writer in me, step away from the computer, and become a regular person. Then I find story ideas in everything around me. Most of the time, however, I’m deep into writer mode. 
So when stories come to me, I’m so very grateful for them. 
Are you one of those writers who has story premise ideas popping up all over the place? Or do you need a flash of inspiration to goad your muse? How does story conception work for you?
And readers, do you read stories and think, “I wish the author had done this… I would have enjoyed the story more.”?
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:hug: Neato! I made the headlines of your blog! Thankyouthankyou! :cheer:
It sure sounded like you were full of ideas in that post is the only reason I thought you had a mainline on ideas. They come to me fairly easily, until I rip it, pick it, and poke it so much that it loses appeal to me by the time I sit down to write it.
Any suggestions on how to turn off this obnoxious, loudmouth internal editor that I have rattling around in my head? :think:
Lordy, I’ve got tons of ideas and am too slow a writer. I keep jotting down the ideas, hoping one of these days I’ll hit my stride and the writing of them will come as easily.
Fat chance.
I always have ideas that pop into my head. It is finding the time to write them that is the problem.
I have tons of ideas floating around. It’s amazing how they all just hit at the oddest times.
I’ve got an idea folder, though, just in case.
My ideas come frequently, but not in fleshed out mode. Sometimes I catch a snippet of the characters, sometimes just the initial conflict. I write them down, but often when it comes time to write a new book, a brand new idea pops up and I like that one better. :doh:
Like you, I have a few ideas started and a couple more in a folder, but otherwise that’s it. I don’t have endless ideas floating around in my head. I do worry about coming up with the next idea. Sometimes it’s right there the second I finish or worse, when I’m in the middle of a project, but most of the time I have nothing. LOL!
Agh, I find story ideas so hard to come by! It’s like pulling teeth… Or hewing a statue or something out of granite. When I hear of people having idea after idea, with tons of novels screaming at them to write them, I just want to tear my hair out in jealousy!
And when I do get a flicker of inspiration, the actual book concept itself grows very slowly too. I’ve likened it to the process of accretion. There’s this tiny kernel of an idea, and very, very gradually a story builds up around it. Takes an age for a proper fully fledged concept to appear though.
Which is why when it does happen it’s such a relief and such a thrill!
My old mum used to say that nothing worthwhile ever comes easily and I like to think that’s true of my fiction.
So don’t worry, Sylvia, you’re not the only one without a huge great file full of story concepts waiting to be written! :hug:
Love
Wendy
I have to wait for flashes of inspiration. Fortunately I get them fairly frequently. Sometimes I finish up a book and think, “That’s it. No more ideas have come to me and I’m never going to find another one,” but they always do come to me eventually– usually in the shower, while I’m half asleep, or when I’m exercising.