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This part of the forum seems pretty dead in comparison to the rest, which is a shame.

So, let's try and give it a kick up the arse.

I am wanting to start writing fiction for my own amusement, is anybody else writing their own work? I am curious to learn how people get their ideas and how they start. I've started reading 'creative writing for dummies' i'm not very far into it yet, but one of the tips they give is to take a news headline as a starting point and take it in your own direction. Are there other ways people approach it?