I wanted to write a story about a boy who finds a dragon egg, hatches it, norishes it and bonds with. It didn't take me long --a few weeks-- to realize I wasn't going to be able to go anywhere with that. I couldn't come up with a conflict.

So not wanting to entirely change my original idea I came up with a conflict that would only change it a little. Boy finds egg. Boy searches for father he never knew. Boy finds father only to learn he is a dragon slayer. Lame. Lame.

I wracked my brain coming up with a good conflict. But then my whole plot changed. I didn't have boy finds dragon anymore, not even a dragon. I had wizards, healers and other sorts of mythical creatures -- still researching this one -- agh.....why on earth did I choose to write the hardest genre out there?

My point is, don't throw out your ideas if they aren't everything you expected them to be. Tweek them, polish, hone, rework, something will come out of them.

If I can do it I know you can. Well I haven't done it yet, but I'm stubborn. I'll do it if it kills me because someone said I couldn't.

Keep writing every day. Someone said -- I wish I knew who -- " We don't regret what we did. We regret what we didn't do".