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Over on the podcast, we talked about how writers can take some of the tools of writers to build better stories and that brings me to this for you all, paid subscribers.

Random Exercise That's Supposed To Be Helpful

A lot of the time at school visits, I talk about the weirdest places I've gotten ideas and how some of those ideas are so bizarre that a sane human would just thrust them out of their mind. I talk about how you have to 'say yes' to your ideas no matter how weird they are, no matter how much we doubt them. 

I talk about how the idea for the NEED series came from seeing a strange smelling man on my way into a fair. He had a tail wrapped in fabric. He had silver eyes. Enough said, right? While other people might have thought he was a random guy doing cosplay, my brain jumped to "human-sized pixie about to cause an apocalypse." Since, I didn't reject that idea and wrote about it, I ended up getting a book series that was an international bestselling.