Read this on galpod.com. Over at our fantastic writers' group, we ran an ideas workshop that was a pretty big hit. We each brought an idea for a story, and then took turns to share the idea and others gave us some feedback, responses, and random thoughts. It went really well. People shared fascinating ideas, and each opened a lively discussion about possible plot twists, what's the best point-of-view from which to tell the story, when to reveal which twist, what might the cha

Read this on galpod.com. We've been talking at my incredible Writers' Group about ideas. Where they come from, and how to decide what's a good idea. It made me think about where my ideas come from. I said here that I noticed that many of my ideas come when I talk to other people. Some ideas come when I read books or listen to podcasts. But I haven't had a new idea in a while. And I've been talking to lots of people and doing lots of new stuff. So, what happened? I think there