HOW DO
authors come up with their ideas
I emailed 4 authors this question and these are there replies!!
Most stories spring up out of a real incident. For instance, I was inspired to write The Last Dragon Chronicles after buying a clay dragon from a craft fair.
~Chris d'Lacey
I get my ideas for books from my own kids and sometimes from other children. Often when I am telling stories I will say I am going to make up a new story. I get a kids name to use in the story and I still don't know what I am going to say. I just say whatever comes into my head and see if it's good. Usually it isn't. But sometimes it is very good. Lots of my books have started this way.
~Robert Munsch
Most of my ideas come from people I meet, conversations I have, things I see in the news or in the world around me. I have had the odd dream that I wake up from, wondering, "Would that make a good story?" but I have never actually followed up on one of these.
~Maureen Ulrich
I did email another author named Chris Wooding but he did not reply back to me yet.