Questions People Ask about Writing
Once I started getting published, I learned that readers are curious. They’ll hang on the words of famous and not-so-famous writers. I’ve seen and felt both.
 JohnFox.com poses two questions most asked of writers. One is: Where do you get your ideas? The second: Tell me about your writing process.
My answer to the first: Where do you get your ideas?
 Harry’s Trees, my first picture book, came from experience. It was a way to share with my grandchildren and great nieces and nephews what I knew as a child. My dad, their great grandfather, had taught us about trees and plants. I focused on one part — his passion for trees. The book started out as a family project that evolved into a general market book for children and their parents.

The second question regards my writing process.
For my own projects, first I just write and don’t worry about sentence structure and grammar, just letting the words flow onto the page. On revision, I can pay attention to content, grammar, punctuation and so forth. My writer’s critique group often helps me later in the revision process.

Except during NaNoWriMo, when I try to keep the daily minimum, I don’t have a set number of words to produce in a day or week. I just let it happen as it will, but I do try to write something every day.

Sometimes an idea comes in the night, so I keep a notebook and pen at my bedside. Then, I sit up and quickly write it down. Likewise when I’m away from home, I’m glad to have a pen and small notebook with me, so that I can make quick notes. Later, I can write it out in full. I enjoy the physicality of writing out an idea by hand first, though often I do begin writing on the computer.

That’s how I get my ideas and record them, and how my process works. How will you answer? Perhaps your answer includes writing 500 words a day or 1,000 words a week.
For those days when ideas do not come easily, here are a few resources from MIT Global Studies and others that you can explore.
MIT Global Studies
Next Level Writing video
Writing Cooperative
Keep on writing!