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Where Great Ideas Come From
Where do great ideas come from? Do writers invent them—or do they simply learn to recognize them when inspiration comes calling?
In this thoughtful and wide-ranging episode of The Women Are Plotting, Etienne Rose Olivier, Heidi Willis, and Jane Gari explore the mysterious nature of creativity, inspiration, and the elusive muse. Drawing from Greek mythology, famous artists, bestselling authors, and their own writing lives, they discuss whether ideas exist independently of us, why some stories seem to arrive fully formed, and how dreams, memories, everyday experiences, and even life's greatest…
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