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Where Do You Get Your Ideas? A Basic Primer of a Novelist's Writing Process

Where Do You Get Your Ideas? A Basic Primer of a Novelist's Writing Process

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Mary Carroll Moore
Nov 13, 2015
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One of my online students, new to writing fiction, brought up a couple of good and very important questions in class this week.


1.  How do you start writing a novel?  What are the steps?
2.  Where do you get your ideas?

In this blog I'm going to tackle the second question--about idea gathering--because it's really the first step to writing a book of any …

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