Where Do Great Story Ideas Come From?

How to dream up and otherwise spot more stories than you’ll have time to write

“I got a lot of ideas.  Trouble is, most of them suck.”
—George Carlin

When I was little, I had this cousin whose family would visit from out of town once a year. Steve was a year older than me (still is!) and was funny as hell. One day, when I was about 10 years old, he told a good, slightly dirty joke, and I asked him: “Where do you get your jokes from?…