On Ideas
No Ideas, Losing Ideas, and Used Ideas
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People often overthink ideas.
Sometimes, they lament that they will never have an idea good enough to write a whole book about. But that's often not how stories come together. Sometimes, they will slowly grow by combining multiple different smaller ideas one at a time over successive drafts, until the final product looks radically different from it's first little sparks of an idea. We just don't usually see that process happen, since we almost exclusively read finished books.
Other times, they worry that someone will steal their idea if they even whisper it out loud. But, as anyone that has done writing prompts can tell you, even when two different writers start with exactly the same opening line, the resulting stories will almost immediately diverge and end up wildly different. No one else will tell your idea like you can, even if you handed them all your notes and thoughts wrapped up in a bow.
And other people worry that all the ideas they have are stale and boring and have been done before and better. This kind of thinking underestimates how much every idea has been done and done again, over and over. Have you heard about the story of the brave hero that goes on a quest, you know, the one with the dragon at the end? Or the one about the girl detective that solves mysteries around her neighbourhood? Or the one about the group of kids that slips out of our normal world and into a whole magical fantasy world hidden in the most unlikely place? Or they one with the spaceship and wild adventures that it lets the main character have by flying across space? If you are immediately thinking of more than one story that fits each of these descriptions, yes, that is the whole point. Readers will often finish a book they love and then immediately start looking for something else similar but just a little bit different to read next. Your idea doesn't have to be so new that it's never been seen before. In fact, if anything, it probably shouldn't be so original, or else you'll have trouble describing it to potential readers!
In short, don't sweat over your ideas overly much. Ideas will come, ideas will grow, ideas can be used and reused infinitely.
Ideas are just the starting point; writing is what you do with them.