Tips for Young Writers 18: Keep a journal of ideas.

Keep a journal of ideas. Ideas are precious, and very slippery – they slip out of your mind if you don’t catch them quickly enough. So make sure you write all your ideas down in your journal. Then, when you’re running out of ideas for your story, read your journal and see if there’s anything in there that can help you. You’ll often surprise yourself with how useful random ideas can be.