How ideas come to you?

United States
May 27, 2011 9:56pm CST
I recently started 2 write stories. Not necessary books, but it's a hobby. I start, but never finish and i still have ideas running through my head but can't put them together. How are ideas coming to you guys?
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@murfus (78)
• Colombia
28 May 11
often ideas come from mistakes, usually when i play world of warcraft or when i create he name of any character i wait like 5 minutes and i get a pretty cool name, here i leave a few names: -arathors -keithalas -zafiron -raknos in conclusion ideas do not come without reason you have to think like them, get into his world, for example your creating a book and you never finished just finish it, you already done the hardest part which is to get the ideas, is just your turn to organize them, but sometimes you have too many ideas and you dont know how to start, just spend some time xD (sorry for y low level of english)
• United States
28 May 11
I love games, and it gives me ideas for adventure problems in my stories. Cool names come out too lol. And don't worry i understood what you tried to say. :)
@tammy27 (1241)
• Philippines
28 May 11
i guess we're in the same boat. i've been writing all those ideas for about 3years now, all i have are rough draft notebooks. i cant seem to find the right ways to connect them although they're all based in one streaming idea of a novel. i cant empty my mind when it comes to these ideas, in fact they're always flooding, so searching for ideas is not a problem, my problem is how to put them together, hehe
• United States
28 May 11
Same here, i have a notebook that is filled with ideas, but dont have anything in common. The longest story i could write was about 20 pages long. I keep reading other books, and watching movies, tv shows, and more only to have more and more ideas, and still can't put them together.
@SHAMRACK (8576)
• India
28 May 11
Dear friend, I have no intention to write any books now, may be if I get better ideas I may try. Moreover I do not feel I am a good writer. But being in mylot I had got many ideas that was contributed by mylotters. Moreover many of dicussion really helped a lot in change my way of thinking. May it has given a self development.
• United States
28 May 11
You don't have to be a good writer to write your ideas down on a piece of paper (or computer). All you have to have is imagination and this way a big vocabulary, that's all.