I get ideas for my writing from all sorts of places.
Sometimes just hearing about what someone else has written gives me a spark of an idea. Maybe somewhat similar, but definitely my own. A few of my most recent ideas came that way.
Sometimes I get ideas from a memory. That doesn’t happen much for me, except when I’m thinking of the possibilities for a cozy mystery (or series) that I’m considering writing someday.
A scent can give me ideas. Sometimes it makes me picture a place or perhaps an event. Other times it will give me an idea of a particular person.
I think my favorites, and the hardest ones to work into writing, are the sensations. A sudden feeling of mystery makes me want to work that into a story somehow or write well enough to create that for a reader. A sense of something magical, but unseen, perhaps waiting to be discovered. That peace and contentment that washes over you out of nowhere. A feeling that there’s something wonderful just around the corner. Or something lurking! All of these have sparked writing ideas for me.