Throughout time, writers use information from the Real of their lives, and then twists, bends, melts, and jumbles it all together into something for the Fictional. Why are writers always trying to come up with 'brand new' (you never know for sure if nobody thought of it before) ideas for books and things. But you're looking in all the wrong places! Some of you might spend all day staring up at the clouds, looking for strange shapes you could write about, others might only listen to music and expect WOWing ideas to come out of nowhere.
Sometimes, all you need to do is look around at the world. Anything, literally ANYTHING, can give you inspiration. Whether it be something simple as a pen or a notebook, or maybe it's something complex like the origin of the earth. But you can find so much more if you just look closer.
This world is full of so much stuff that can create an infinite amount of ideas spiraling through your mind (and your notebook). Try taking a look at something that interests you, or maybe look at something you know nearly nothing about. Things like mythologies, histories of countries/people, math (yes MATH can help you with ideas), physics, chemistry, astroNOMY, astroLOGY, astroPHYSICS, geology, geography, biology, wars in the past and modern days, cities, countries, myths and legends, and anything else you can think of. You can look at these things and then take them and morph them (through any amount of twists and turns) into something new, and entirely yours. Change around the who, what, when, where, and how. Change one of them just a little and another a lot. You could take Adolf Hitler with the Nazis and his trying to take over the world and change it to the slave's son who just barely got freed and is now leading a group called the Reformers to try and take over the slave market to free the slaves and enslave the slavers. Maybe this is the past of your book, or the future, or maybe it just barely happened and your character has to figure out a way to deal with the destruction caused by all this.
Go ahead and give this a try, taking something from the Real and morphing it into something of the Fictional. I dare ALL of you out there to find something or someone or an event (anything you like) and change the who, what, when, where, and how. Maybe change the who just a little so if you are taking a drill sergeant maybe your character is a drill sergeant. Then maybe you'll change the where a lot, instead of a drill sergeant on an army base in the US, maybe he's on an army base on Pluto and preparing to defend the Galaxy from the invaders. After you do this, share them, with anyone. Whether it's me, your brother, sister, parent, teacher, friend, random stranger, or anyone, ask them what they think. And then see if you can expand it and follow it to the end (and beyond!).
That's it for now, have a British day :) -Kac
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