Ideas

Where do you get your ideas?

Mr Bradley from the book Flight of the Evening Star by Justyn Walker
justyn Planning, Writing September 10, 2026 Leave a reply

A lot of kids ask me: Where do you get all your ideas? I think that’s because when you read a book, there are so many little word pictures that it’s hard to imagine just writing that from scratch. And the truth is, (awkward pause), I don’t. Er, write from scratch, that is. I’ve included a short snippet below from the third book in my Georgie Tanner series, Flight of the Evening Star. It’s a fun little scene that demonstrates how I do write interesting scenes with all those little word pictures. Let’s start.

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