chaosmage comments on Open Thread, Jun. 29 - Jul. 5, 2015 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: chaosmage 30 June 2015 11:38:44PM 0 points [-]

Google "writing prompts".

If you know another language, translate obscure public domain material from that language.

Re-make something in a different style: take a sci-fi novel and make it into a pirates short story, for example.

And when your actual idea hits you, drop all of that other stuff and focus.