Yeah, I’m trying to remember when I last had a brand new idea too! I can sometimes come up with ideas for short stories, but finding ideas for, and plotting and developing new full length book projects is very very hard for me.

It’s like I said on the loop, if I have a new idea, odds on it’s either daft, unviable, or I’ve done it before in some shape or form. And I’m v. picky too… Sometimes a vague plot will form, but I dismiss it, because it’s too stupid or too contrived and I can’t imagine any editor ever going for it… and then the next day, I’ll read the blurb for, or a review of some newly published book and find that somebody’s used just the plot that I rejected as too silly and unrealistic!

And my best ideas tend to gather themselves together slowly, over many weeks or months, with little bits gradually slotting into place…

Do you get that, Syl? Anybody else the same?

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