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"Where do you get your ideas from?"

"A small mail-order firm in Checkoslovakia."

This is a short exchange from a real question and answer session with a writer, who was clearly being facetious in his reply. The interesting thing is that, although the answer was silly, it adequately demonstrated the writer using his imagination and throwing out an idea there and then. Imagine if there really were catalogues and websites that dispensed ideas for a small fee - take that idea far enough and you have an entire story.

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