Journey – Page 2 – Alaa Khaldun

1-1 Where Do Ideas Come From?

By Alaa Khaldun | 16 January 202619 August 2026 by Alaa Khaldun

Well, anywhere and everywhere. The question you should actually be asking is, ‘What connections can I make with those ideas?’ Ideas are one flint of what you need to set ablaze your creativity. So what is the second flint? It’s connectivity. Ideas come from any place you can imagine. From the news, social media, that odd conversation between those two suspicious characters on the bus, the grocery store, etc. A lot of people ask this…

1. Getting Started Blog Corners of Creativity

1-0 Why Write?

By Alaa Khaldun | 6 January 202619 August 2026 by Alaa Khaldun

The first question you need to ask yourself is, ‘Why are you writing?’ Then comes the ‘What are you writing?’ and ‘For whom?’ When I first began writing, I knew exactly what I wanted to do. I wanted to write epic fantasy stories filled with magic and dragons and all sorts of amazing, destiny-imbued characters. I started with the most cliché of things, which was to copy Hollywood plot lines, because, well, they were the…