reply

Hi, Samuel,

Thanks for posting and for being a fan.

My ideas come from plain old hard work, and a lot of thinking and plotting. No big mystery; it’s just work.

There’s also personal experience, or ideas that come from movies or TV shows — (you build off the original idea, you never steal it.) They also come from jotting down all your story ideas or thoughts. You should be writing every day anyway — notes, letters, journals, anything that keeps you writing. Who knows? A whole fresh story may come from a single scene, or phrase that you experience.

Hey, good luck. I hope to be writing you a fan letter one of these days!       —–Gordon Korman—–