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9 ways to kickstart your idea process.
Explore the who, what, when, where and why of a topic. Any one can be enough to generate topics.
Explore causes of events or start with a a setting/moral situation of a topic and expand.
Read a selection of authoritative opinions on a subject or event. Are they right? What if there's another viewpoint on it?
Any time an idea for a story comes to mind, jot it down on paper or the note app on your phone.
How is an idea unique from others? What are the merits of one versus another?
Get into a zone of writing for 30 minutes without thinking of the final product. Let your thoughts spill out, and a topic will likely appear.
Explore the forces shaping a topic. How is it changing? What's causing it?
Explore a topic as a whole versus how the parts within it interact.
See if you can connect two opposing ideas, or explore the relationship between the two of them.
