The Oasis of Literature

If you're lacking ideas or simply need something to help your story grow get a stack of three to seven books, or however many you want. Take those books and turn to page 43, 143, or 243 (depending on the book, the large the book the higher page number you want) and write down the very first line of that page form each other these books in one of your writing notebooks. Now read over all of them together. What did you get? Examples: Where do you think you're going? -crouches on the ground, it's flaming eyes searing into her soul. -shocked I look up at you. With these examples you could say that there is a girl who is chasing after someone she cares about and they try to get her not to follow them. Who knows. As you do this pick up these same books again and flip to two random pages in each book, close your eyes, and point. write down every word you point at, even if you already wrote them down. Sometimes your mind just needs some new input and new things to look at. Ever...

Sometimes you have this really good idea in your head but it just isn't working out on paper. You keep trying to write it out but it just isn't working out the way you want it to. Occasionally you will just have to trash the idea, but this isn't for every single time. First what you need to try to do is get at least two or three other ideas, even if they're small, and put all of these ideas together. Slowly weave these ideas together until they back each other up and work together and hold together strongly. Some ideas will not go well together so don't be afraid to rip them apart. An example of this could be, maybe you want the story to be about this teenage guy who works as a butler for some extra money on weekday evenings. But you don't know what is going to happen to him. Maybe you have had this other idea sitting around in the back of your head, where strange things have been happening around this small town, people disappearing, houses moving five feet. ...