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Hi, Vienne,

Thanks for posting. I’ll try to deal with your question:

My ideas come from plain old hard work and a lot of thinking and planning. No big mystery about it. It’s just work. Your trouble seems to be that you’re starting to write before you have a clear idea of what you want to write about. I never put down a single word until my story is well-planned first. So that’s my advice: plan your story first. Then, when you start to write it, it will be your story and not someone else’s. Good luck!

                                                                                                                      —–Gordon Korman—–