How to Know a Story Idea When You See One

It looks like a duck; it quacks like a duck; it must be a duck

Susan Orlean

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The lightbulb goes off. Photo: Akshay Paatil / Unsplash

Sometimes I think my superpower is coming up with story ideas. It’s an undervalued component of being a writer, which is quite an irony since you can’t write unless you have an idea of what you want to write about.

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Susan Orlean

Staff writer, The New Yorker. Author of The Library Book, The Orchid Thief, and more…Head of my very own Literati.com book club (join me!)