The first essential ingredient of any story, any book, and any article is THE IDEA. However, the question any children’s author, writer, or journalist is likely to ask is “WHERE DO I GET MY IDEAS?”Written by best-selling and award-winning children’s author Anthony D. Fredericks (Desert Night, Desert Day; Under One Rock) , this collection of two dozen dynamic and inventive idea generators will ensure you an unstoppable production of hundreds, no thousands, of story ideas that will keep your mind running at “warp speed” and your fingers dancing across your computer keyboard for hours. No matter whether you write fiction or nonfiction, books for toddlers or books for young adults, you will literally turn on the “creative spigot” in your head - producing an avalanche…a tsunami…and a hurricane of creative story ideas. Guaranteed!Some of the most creative people in the arts, industry, business, education, social work, and medicine have used these strategies - with enormous success. Most important, however, is the fact that these “Idea Generators” all have immediate and direct application for both novice and experienced children’s authors. Here you will discover an infinite variety of techniques that will produce an infinite variety of ideas. You’ll find yourself mentally engaged in fostering story ideas of every imaginable shape, size, and color - creating more ideas than you will ever use in a lifetime of writing. In fact, by the end of this book, you will have officially earned your P.H.D. (Plenty of Hot iDeas)!