In a similar way to acting, a large part of writing (and how to get ideas for stories) is inhabiting other worlds, minds, and lives. Barbara Kingsolver, interviewed by Goodreads, September 2018.Ĭuriosity of this kind – being curious about change, what drives it, what it could lead to – is key to how to find writing ideas from history or present events. All these things that I’ve always counted on suddenly were no longer true.
And not only that, but larger, biological rules about our home, the idea that the poles would always be covered with ice, and that there would always be more fish in the sea. The question in this case was, “What in the heck is going on?” How can it be that all of the rules-about what kind of leaders people admire and elect to public office, and how we behave as citizens of the world-no longer seem to apply. Says Kingsolver, when asked whether there was an ‘aha’ moment that made her write the book: ‘What’s Going On?’, Alfred W Cleveland / Marvin P Gaye / Renaldo Benson, ‘What’s Going On?’, 1971.īarbara Kingsolver describes writing her novel Unsheltered (2018) out of a similar question. Picket lines and picket signs/ Don’t punish me with brutality/ C’mon talk to me/ So you can see/What’s going on. In this case, the answers described conflicts surrounding civil rights, with lyrics such as:
Marvin Gaye did this memorably in his 1971 soul music classic. Read 7 insights on how to get writing ideas from Goodreads’ author interviews: 1. Questions such as ‘what if…’ and ‘why is it that…’. Visual images that linger in your imagination. Where do great writing ideas come from? Ideas arise from many places.
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