[ OT ] How do you come up with the stories you write about ?

Personally, I keep a stash of images that I find particularly inspiring. When I'm stuck, I look at one of those and try and make up a story about something that's in them. Prompts definitely help. I've got a great collection of recurring characters that I create from prompts and that stick with me. Then I also get half ideas from films, from road names, from long drives. Try making a scrap-page of doodles and stuck in pictures, then quotes and half thought-out ideas ( even if it's just the tail edge of a sentence, like'dinosaurs go head to head with squids in a cake decorating competition! ) Once you have an *idea, * try a mind map to plot stuff out!
