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“Lit Hub Daily September 10, 2026 What if America was called the “United States of the Earth”?”
“ What if no one at the house where Myron dropped her off even knows who she is?”
“People close to me are used to it—“Oh, Harlan is going off to La-La Land.” They all get it.”
“No excuses, Coben.”
“Everything you see is a potential writing prompt.”
“ What if a teenage girl—let’s call her Aimee—calls my hero one night at 2 a.m.”
“You need curiosity.”
“ It’s also one of the key ways we come up with and develop ideas.”
“Promise me you’ll never get in a car with someone who has been drinking.”
“You must read books.”
“Everything you experience should make you ask, “What if…” Most fiction writing starts by asking “what if.” For that matter, that’s how most scientific advancements begin too.”
“ But we are writers.”
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“I’m obliviously rude sometimes.”
“We have the writer’s mind frame and childlike curiosity.”
“ So one day, when I was at my neighbor’s house, I overheard their teenage kids talking about drinking and driving.”
“With that in mind, I carry a backpack with me all the time.”
“Literary Hub » Harlan Coben Answers the Age-Old Question: “Where Do You Get Your Ideas?” Literary Hub Craft and Criticism Literary Criticism Craft and Advice In Conversation On Translation Fiction and Poetry Short Story From the Novel Poem News and Culture History Science Politics Biography Memoir Food Technology Bookstores and Libraries Film and TV Travel Music Art and Photography The Hub Style Design Sports Become A Member Lit Hub Radio The Lit Hub Podcast Awakeners Fiction/Non/Fiction The Critic and Her Publics Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast Memoir Nation Beyond the Page First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing Thresholds The Cosmic Library Culture Schlock Reading Lists Reading Challenge Book Marks Best Reviewed Books CrimeReads True Crime The Daily Thrill Log In Craft and Criticism Fiction and Poetry News and Culture Lit Hub Radio Reading Lists Reading Challenge Book Marks CrimeReads Log In Harlan Coben Answers the Age-Old Question: “Where Do You Get Your Ideas?” “Sometimes, it’s a simple ‘what-if.’” Via The Craft of Writing Harlan Coben September 11, 2026 This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Craft of Writing newsletter— sign up here .”
“ That is the opening of my eighth Myron Bolitar novel, Promise Me .”
“I try to live with this simple credo always in mind: If it helps me produce pages, good.”
“But true innovators keep asking “What if?” “Where do you get your ideas?” Sometimes, it’s a simple “what-if.” Let me give you a quick example of how a “what-if” led to an idea for a novel.”
“Even better, childlike curiosity.”
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