Trying to come up with an original idea is difficult. Most ideas are actually different takes on old ideas. Like the book and movie Warm Bodies is just a zombie version of Romeo and Juliet. It's cool but everyone wants to be the original whatever. I don't want to write a story about a wizard who has to save his/her school. It's been done and it is way too soon to be starting that.
There are some days I'll be listening to a song and then BAM, an idea pops into my head. Usually they're strange in the context of the situation I'm in. Like the other day, I was pacing to "This Kiss" by my girl Carly Rae Jepsen and I got the idea for what to do with one of my side characters. I had her in jail and while the main character was visiting her, the main character would also meet an important character who would move the story along. That way it's not all in one place.
Then I thought, "what language should these creatures speak and what should I name them? They would be evolved humans and would have a slightly evolved language. Would this change the setting? The only other language I am familiar with is German, that is a sister language to English so it could work as a metaphor. What if the reader assumes they're Nazi creatures? Not all Germans are Nazis, How said is it that the stereotype of Germans are Nazis, my stereotype is VW cars, those are hippie cars, I can have them run on renewable fuel! That would be great!"
This is basically my thought process for a couple chapters in my story.
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