How do you come up with ideas for original hubs?
Well, they come from your head. One thinks of them. If one doesn't think of them, I'm afraid there is no other way.
I will, however, say this. The greater one's degree of general knowledge and information abou the world, the easier it is to find these ideas...
So, start reading. Lots!
Good luck.Im the same, I just get ideas pop into my head but because im quite new to this, I cant write as quick as my ideas come so I have to write my ideas down and when i'm ready I have a nice big list to pick from
Ok, I guess I was wrong.
It just doesn't happen for me. You guys are lucky:) That's awesome.
Try to answer your question yourself. It will be a unique hub.
Sorry but I totally disagree with you on!
Reading Does NOT create Uniqueness... From my experience here, while there are a huge amount of good writers and articles here; Uniqueness does not come from borrowing the ideas of those who write well..... copying does! Unique is about Being Different! - Anyway you like.. But You Must Let Go Average, to do that and if you expect to achieve unique from reading... then unless you know 'Who' to read for Unique.. then you will read a whole lot of average that will probably blunt your wish to be 'different!' - Hope you understand what I'm saying
Further - Whoever makes a claim that it takes a million words to write well, as you put it... really is talking rubbish and certainly knows little about uniqueness!
It takes a sense of responsibility to write well - If you choose to call yourself a writer.. then take the responsibility of being a writer! If you choose to be Average.. be the same as everyone else who has not taken that responsibility.
Or step up and take the responsibility and be a writer.. they (writers) are unique and every good writer has taken the responsibility to be unique. You start out with the right positive, creative attitude and then apply the following reasoning.
The reason works are featured primarily is that is they are Well Written and Constructed. Someone has made the effort to provide quality when quality is called for. Ask yourself: what attracts you personally to an article? That is what others also seek.. so as a writer.. provide it.. Creatively, In your own style! But don't compromise quality by poor grammar, spelling, or lack of depth.. That is what Average Writers do!
You are most welcome to critique my works as harshly as you can... see if you can fault my writing. 95% of the articles that I've written here have been featured at some stage. I'm not boasting or self promoting... I am a writer and one that via my works has taken the responsibility to produce well.. end of story!
One other thing... take the time to research well... it shows within your first paragraph whether you know what you're taking about or not! Good Attitude = Good Articles! Good Attitude + Good Research + Interesting Creative Differences = Exceptional Articles
Now Add.... Style + Personality = Exceptionally Unique Articles!Peraldiver, sorry, disagree with you.
No hard feelings, though.
I think you've misconstrued what is being said here. Reading improves your writing because, if you start early enough, it develops your rhythm, just the way native speakers of a langague develop an ear for the rhythm of the language. Reading also gives one a lot of information that lates twists itself to form new ideas.
Next, I have never worked hard at writing. I have never needed to. I have been published since I was 9 years old and won my first nation wide writing competitinon at 18. The marketing director of the nation wide newspaper group said it was the finest piece of writing he had seen in 20 years. I've had many accolades through the years for my writing. it was noted very early on in school that I had a talent for it and many publishers have asked me why I've never written a book.
Again, I've never worked at writing. Never had to.
Like you, I'm a professional writer. And like you, I'm writing under a pen name.
I have an original idea every few minutes. In London, at film school, the professor was stunned that I was able to script a movie and characterize it in 5 minutes. He told me I would be welcome at any movie set in the world.
At summer school in the UK, in a fantasy workship, I was as embarrassed as all hell when my idea was the only one that wasn't applauded. Why wasn't it applauded? Because nobody had ever thought of anything like that before. In any event, it was my story that was selected for the class to work on.
So, it goes.
I'm sure that you have worked hard at your writing. I haven't. People are different.
What is true is that it's unlikely one will have a good writing style if one hasn't been reading throughout one's childhood. And the second thing that is unlikely is that one will have many ideas if one hasn't a lot of information in one's head.
One last closing point. Years ago, I submitted a book to a publisher who published Nobel prize winning and Booker prize wining stories. She told me that she had no doubt of my talent but suggested that writing books and leaving them in my bottom drawer was not a good idea. She then asked me if I read primarily fiction or non-fiction. I said non-fiction.
She said that all her fiction writing authors read predominantly non-fiction. One doesn't steal ideas from the non-fiction. It gives one the background to peg the story on..
Think about it. Asimov, Crichton, Robin Cook, Heinlein, Clark, etc. were all scientists or doctors. They didn't go to writing school. They had an imagination and a setting...
Anyway, that's my piece.
Ideas just come in to my head during the day or I see something somewhere that makes me think of a hub!
When people ask what to write about I say write about your passion , your interests !
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