Where do you get your writing ideas from?

i had a chance to write an article for my previous job. What i do is to write something that i felt i needed to share with someone. Sometimes our experiences, thoughts, feelings, emotions, etc are the most powerful ideas to write about. Someone out there might be interested to read a portion of our lives.

I mainly write fantasy stories. My writing inspirations are mainly from my dreams at night... Sometimes most of the things I write are about whatever I have faced in life and then I add some fictious elements to it...

Personally for me, I find my Writing ideas always stemming from either things going on in my life, around the world, or sometimes from other things I have read, seen or know others are experiencing as well. Whether it be in here, Associated Content, or wherever, I seem to always be sparked with New ideas and thoughts I feel is worth talking about and usually find them worthwhile as well.

I get my ideas from things that happen to me during the day, or what I see on the news. Sometimes I'll take a story I am reading and build a discussion about something within that story.

i started doing most of my writing for work. I found that i needed to write somehing to catch my employees eye and to make them want to read my emails so i started to write my emails like they were from Dr. Seuss. They were well known company wide and everyone looked forward to them. guess you do what works

ideas are as simple as the life around us. I can see myselfd using a topic like negative engery. I walked in to my office which I share with the day time phone operator because while out on maternity leave they gave her my shift. i was excited, happy, bursting with ready. The day operator had had a bad day her daughter had gotten her car... and only mode of traspertation inpounded and arrested. That was not all that happen to her so needed less to say her bad day did not end with that event. But after standing in the office with her for only a moment I felt drained. So as you can see don't look to hard. Ideas for writing can come from all over the place.

My dreams, mostly...my brain is a little hyperactive, and is always giving me writing material. I too usually have more ideas than I can do stuff with. For my blog...well, I'm an alternative news blogger. Whatever's in the news is my material.

I find that I tend to write about things that I have read about, learned about recently, news reports, places that I have been or things that I have came across in my life. I recently wrote about Lyme Disease on Associated Content as my oldest daughter has it and it can be misdiagnosised so easily. I try to keep a notebook close to me so that I can write about things as I think about them.

I get most of my writing ideas for my self-development articles from incidents that happen in my day-to-day working life with clients. Their questions seems to provide the inspiration. Sometimes the ideas flow thick and fast, and there are periods that may be several days or even weeks, where just nothing seems to come at all. Sometimes I enjoy writing fictional stories and like you TV, newspaper stories and things I hear give me some good ideas. - Derek

Hi Jakill, I am not a writer as such but do write poetry occassionally and I get my inspiration from life events really that I or friends and family have experienced. Huggles. Ellie :D

Same as you there is no particular thing that gives me an idea, it comes from different sorts of areas as what you've mention above. Well, no matter how I have a wonderful ideas, I can't put it into writings because I find it very difficult to comprehend my ideas into a story or article. Maybe, I'm not good in writing. I always having problem on how to start it and how to end it in a good and amazing way. It is always my problem even since when I was still studying. I rather express it through words than put it into writings. Here in mylot, I don't really start a discussion because I don't know what should I need to discuss so that people will entertain or will be interested to comment or make a response. I used to response more often than making my own discussion.

Hi jakill, I get my ideas while waking int the woods, or just walking, if I see a bird or a aquirrel or just trees swaying in the breeze I get ideas and can write all sorts of stories. Tamara

Hello there jakill! For me, in order to write a stuff that is good and is interesting to your readers, you must have also a good and interesting inspiration to start with your writing. Also, your mood affects your style of writing and how your writing will turn out. You can have ideas from that. Ranging from your inspiration, your own mood, your impression on things that surrounds that concept, etc. You can have lots of ideas from things. You just got to have a good concept and a nice inspiration for your writing. :)

I have gotten my ideas fr0m different aspect such as fr0m my expirence,and if im in the m0od to write on s0mething.For me to be able to write a interesting topic or articles it should be coming fr0m your expirience and your willingness to give your all to provide impormati0n to others because alot of people will be reading your topic and if they saw your topic is n0t interesting they will c0mebAck and read your topic anymore

Sometimes I write ideas down in my journal, but most of my ideas come from each day's experiences whether spiritually, mentally, physically, what I hear, touch, feel, see, or taste. I love the movie "August Rush" where the little boy hears the music in his head and it comes from all around him. My daughter experiences this same thing and I guess that that is what happens to me when I write. Isn't life and writing grand!