The following is an excerpt from The Children’s Writer’s Guide.
As a writer, I often find myself wondering, “What if?”
This can in itself lead to many story ideas, some of which may end up being more developed than others.
What if you received a letter informing you of your acceptance into a school for wizards?
Or discovered a door into another universe at the back of your bedroom closet?
Or a flying boy dressed all in green appeared at your bedroom window, inviting you to take a journey to a magical land?
Perhaps you followed a rabbit down a hole and ended up in a bizarre underground universe.
What if you met someone who’d been imprisoned inside a painting for over three hundred years?
If you could travel back in time, where would you go?
What would you do if you had a clone for the day?
Whether this is how Harry Potter, The Chronicles of Narnia, Peter Pan, Alice in Wonderland, The Alchemist’s Portrait, or The Clone Conspiracy first came about isn’t the point.
It’s more about how this type of thinking sets the thought process in motion.
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