Morning Muse - Ideas Come From . . . Where?

Writing poetry, blogs, flash fiction, stories, fiction and speeches, the flicker of an idea had to be ignighted from somewhere. 

Where do writing prompts come from? Mine come from life. From the little things no one else sees. They come from somewhere I have never been and a raging imagination. They come from a passion to share. 

I often read what I have penned to the man of the house. Depending on the topic and content, I am guaranteed to get a response in the form of several different facial expressions along with his words of wisdom. There is the one I know, right away he is thinking that the Bunster (my brain idea thing) has fallen off the wheel, or there’s another that tells me he is certain the Bunster has lost it completely; and, finally, the one that comes with the words, “Read that again, or I like it.” The conclusion of our conversation quite often revolves around where the idea was hatched. 

He is not the only one that question where an idea sprouted from. On more than one occasion, friends, family and strangers make the query. Truthfully, my knee jerk answer is, “I don’t know”. When I get to think about it for a few days, my answer has still been, “I don’t know.” And usually with the addition of, “They just happen.”

Once the Bunster has made a few passes around the brain waves with a new imaginitive thought, I might leave it alone for a while; or, I might jot some notes on the nearest piece of paper available; or, I might sit down and write until the words are exhausted. 

Victoria Griffin pretty much sums it up for everyone who writes, and has had the question ”Where do your ideas come from?” asked of them.

Share your idea bank with us. Where do your creative ideas come from?

Ann Edall-Robson
Author, Photographer, Lover of Life