It could be HOW DO DINOSAURS DAY GOODNIGHT, DINOSAUR BOB AND HIS ADVENTURES WITH THE FAMILY LAZARDO, or DINOSAURS LOVE UNDERPANTS. So it’s not the idea by itself, but what you do with it that matters.Ī dinosaur in a human setting. See-the single idea of a child walking in the evening and lights-sun-activtated, or firefly or fairy lights-I already have the beginnings of three different stories from one idea.Īnd if the same story was written by, say-Patricia Polacco, Dan Santat, or me-you would get three very different stories indeed. Or perhaps the child is lost and the lights call her home. She grows into a famous scientist studying fireflies. The child in the picture suddenly begins to see that lights are not just random, but patterned. What if a child going over a stone walkway to her grandmother’s house, fantasizes a story about fairies guiding her to their queen. Here we are crossing from my house, over a set of stone steps, walking down to my daughter’s house. If you’re a writer, just take a walk outside and ideas will come to you at once. …īut honestly, ideas are thick on the ground. I could go on a metaphoric streak about ideas, talking about stalking the shy idea, cultivating the wild idea, setting traps… etc.
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