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    A Writer's Life

    Ideas… & Where to Find Them

    Finding ideas tends to be something writers and other artists think about a lot. Why? Because it doesn’t take much imagination to realise that ideas are any creative’s bread and butter. Want to paint something? Write something? Carve, sculpt, knit, cast, or compose something? You need a starting point: that’s just common sense.  So it’s not surprising, then, that in almost every author interview you stumble across, someone has asked the big question. ‘Where do your ideas come from?’  (Let me give you a hint: they’re not in a treasure chest or underneath that really promising-looking rock.) So, what’s your point? Tell us where ideas come from! It is, at…