• Challenge,  On Writing,  publishing

    Pathological Need for Ideas

    Something That Might Free You… I have heard lately from a few beginning writers who are afraid they won’t have enough ideas. Now I hate to admit this, but I have no ideas. Haven’t really even thought of an idea for a story or novel for decades now. Never occurs to me. I just write books, get inside the character, let the character tell the story, and find the ending when I type it. And as many of you know, I often just start with a title that is a mash-up of two other titles. Just a trigger. This is called writing into the dark. Yet I have heard from…