Im a novice author and i need a good topic for inspiration... could you help?

Question

I really like to grasp the readers attention and ive seen that topics of sorrow, death, mystery, old people dying really work. dont think im wierd but im looking for something like that. it can be a real life experience or fantasy or a current event. just be creative!!!! thanks

Answer 1

Here is the best advice you'll get about writing.
Write first for yourself
second for others and...
Last for money.
Don't focus on what sells right now.
Write what is in you. What you are.

"The difference between truth and fiction:
Fiction has to make sense."
~Mark Twain

Answer 2

Well now. The thing about being an author is that the work has to be YOUR work. That means it has to come from your experience, your dreams, your frustrations, your fantasy. Otherwise it doesn't ring true.
When you take someone else's idea, you don't have the framework that makes that idea work, because you don't have the same depth of experience to draw from. Or rather, you have different experiences. If I can use an analogy, it's like trying to go to sleep at night and have someone else's dream. It's their dream, not yours. You have to have your own dream, and the way you think about that dream, the way you feel about it, the way you understand it, colours the way you will describe it and the way you will write about it.
If you're looking for something to trigger your imagination and start a plot brewing, you can't find a better source than the family and relationships category. There are a hundred stories in that category. Take any one of the questions, play with it, change it around, give the people names, play 'what if?' and see what happens. Once you have created the scenario behind the question, you're ready to begin thinking about plot, and characters.
That's what writing is all about. Taking an idea, stretching it, testing it, modifying it, seeing what you can do with it. And all the time, the voice you use will be yours, and it will sound true, because it is true.
So -- forget about waiting for someone to give you the magic plot. Just click your mouse over the the family category, and see what piques your interest. And take it from there.
Good luck!

Answer 3

Write about something you are familiar with and interested in. When you are having fun or are into the story than your reader is too.
Take an event out of your life, the paper or news and put an interesting spin on it and see where it goes. People watching is good too. Sit in the mall, watch how people interact and try to imagine what their back story is.
The most important part of your story is your characters. Once you find them and make them real, the story WILL come to you.

Answer 4

Just be creative... Use your own advice. Being a writer is more than using words. It is about taking your own ideas and learning how to shape them into strong prose or solid stories. Go to websites like Spicy Green Iguana and easywaytowrite.com, and learn about what stories are and to put them together. Don't look for other people to tell you what to write about. Find yourslelf and you'll find your topics...

Answer 5

smiles if i had an idea i would write it, but then again they say all the best authors steal other peoples base line stories. by now its all been done the only difference now is far out imaginations, and the same stories told differently. sorry but if you pay me half ill give you tons of ideas.
just get out there and experience life more, for real life is stranger than fiction

Answer 6

The idea should come from within yourself - otherwise, you will find that you really don't know enuf abt the subject matter and will probably soon get tired of it.. Pick a subject that you will enjoy because you will be spending a lot of time with it.. let it come from within you..

Write what you know and tell the truth.. [ even if it be fiction ] - -

Answer 7

Within I Seeking Self

Answer 8

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Answer 9

Everything seems better from a different perspective. If you write it from the point of view from a child.....or the child of the murdered.....or something. But the child has to be, like, different, like a genetically changed clone of the mother or something.

Answer 10

You need to do the work. Do a murder mystery loosely based on people you know but change the names.

Good Luck!