I'm happy to say that I've never really had this problem as a writer. If anything, I generally have too many ideas floating around in my head, and not enough hours in the day to write a book for all of them. lol
Anyway, are you struggling to come up with a good book idea? If you are, you are probably not alone. I have heard from other writer's that after spending so much time on one book, and then publishing it that it was hard to get motivated to start another. I generally ask writer's when they tell me this are they just going to be a one book wonder like musicians are with a one-hit wonder? I usually then hear that they want to write another book but they don't have any fresh ideas to get started with.
Here is a video below where this subject is discussed.
Here are some of my own ideas that might help you find something to write about. This first one is where I get a lot of my story ideas from.
Fiction Book Ideas:
- Dreams (I have a notepad by my bed and when I wake up if I remember anything that I dreamt from the previous night I will jot it down).
- News (There are so many stories in the news. Find one that you can change around and create a story off of).
- Music (listen to all kinds of music and see if any song brings to mind anything that you feel you can create a story from).
- Soap Opera's (with bad stories that you know you could write so much better. Just rename your characters and fix the story and plots in your book so they aren't so bad).
- Everyday life (I like to walk around stores and shopping malls listening to people talk on their phones and to other people at the cash register. You'd be surprised at what you hear. Some people live really colorful lives and believe me the writer in me is always processing ideas from these conversations. (If these people only knew). lol
- Music Videos (you can't really copy everything that is going on in a story-type video, but you can get some ideas from them.
- Read other books, and then do the opposite.(I did this with one of my book's titled: "The Value of Love" where the woman in this story is a billionaire and not the man. The genre market today most of the time features the man who is the billionaire and the woman is generally falling at his feet).
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Non-fiction Book Ideas:
So whatever you choose to do, I agree with the person in the video above just write. Don't make excuses just do it! There's a quote that I keep above my desk that reads:
- How to save money
- How to budget
- How to live on a one family income
- How to get better organized
- How to deal with unemployment
- How to schedule your life better (tips & strategies)
- How to deal with a problem child
- How to deal with stress at home and on the job
- How to deal with problem neighbors
- How to beat addiction
- How to fix your own computer
- How to deal with various computer problems
- How to use grammar and punctuation correctly.
- Teach about something you know.
- How to deal with a health issue.
- Celebrity news
- Google Trends - this will tell you what is popular on the Internet at that particular time. There are usually a lot of topics listed. Research and write about one.
These are just a few suggestions, but I'm sure you're getting the idea. Just write about what you know and are passionate about, and that you feel an audience would be too! The people who master this usually are those that have a strong readership, and they don't have to worry about how much money they are making because of this. If you give good content your readers will continue to come back time and time again.
Success...occurs when your dreams become bigger than your excuses!
In my next blog entry, I'm going to talk about book series and whether or not they are a good idea.
So stay tuned!
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