Where do you get your ideas? (Fiction)

[BTW] : Ben Trube, Writer

Common answers to the question asked of all writers: “Where do you get your ideas?”

• I keep writing until something happens, then I cut all the stuff in between.
• Dreams. Be happy I only remember about 10% of them.
• Episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation.
• An actual conversation between me and my spouse.
• My dog.
• Some time after beer number three.
• Some time after coffee number twelve.
• Between 1:00am and 4:30am, if I have the language skills to get them down on paper.
• In the shower.
• On my commute.
• Right before I fall asleep, gone before I wake up.
• Sitting on the love-seat staring at my wife talking, knowing I should be listening (not that often I swear).
• Staring at the books in my office.
• Sitting in long meetings.
• Listening to Shostakovich.
• During the sermon when I should be paying attention for my Going Deeper post.
• On long…

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