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#June2021TBINInterview
*All answers are ad hoc and could be sus.
June Interview Questions
[1] As a writer, how do you come up with new ideas? How do you capture them so that they are ready when you sit down to write?
Ideas come from everywhere. But that’s not much help to readers, is it.
In many of my pieces on Medium, the ideas came from my own photographs or from reading the work of fellow writers. Or a prompt — Thanks Lucy Dan 蛋小姐 (she/her/她).
Often ideas come when out and about in life — a clever play of words overheard in a supermarket, a ludicrous sign, or any number of other random moments. I have my phone with me so I’ll take a photo or make notes for later.
Where does the creative muse find me most? When I sit down to write. Simple as that. So simple it took me decades to learn. Still, I somehow forgot and had to relearn this complex technique.
But it is when I sit down and write that the ideas start to flow and become something. Then I can work on the clarity.
My Scrivener™ files are flooded with half-baked ideas while the other half are scribbled on scraps of paper here on my desk.
