No successful author has ever stopped on one book alone. The next books you will be writing determine your success. Regardless of your experience as an author, coming up with book ideas is always a tough challenge to begin with, so here are five brilliant ideas for writing a book to start stretching your imagination.
Make observations around you. Sometimes, the brightest ideas stir up when your eyes spot something different or interesting. It can be through mining historical facts about a certain place or a prominent figure. If you’re traveling to a different city or perhaps just taking short walks at your neighborhood, observe the environment and the people around you. Just take the first step from there.
Ask yourself as many questions. Your life experiences are already an existing goldmine to generate ideas for writing a book. Formulate as many questions as you can to yourself. Who are the role models in your life? What makes your day? Or what was your biggest challenge in life and how did you overcome it?
Pull together some content you have. Start with the first letter you ever received, your most-treasured childhood stories, random journal entries, documentaries, and blog posts you can pull together and wrap it into an interesting book idea.
Create a character based on someone you know. Your junior years bully might be the next wicked character in your story. You can also base it off from fiction/non-fictional characters or even an actual person you know very well.
Do something new or the first time then write something about it. It could be anything you always wanted to try or even switching to a new habit. Write about how it turned out and how you felt about it. Start your next book idea with every detail that you write.
Pondering on your next book idea can start anywhere around the corner. You just need to get creative by utilizing everything that you have as of the moment and not overanalyze anything. It only needs to be simple and clearly communicated. It doesn’t have to cost too much. It just takes that speck of idea and the time to write that first line in your draft.