Just after I had finished my degree and signed on the dole and started to write. I figured that I'd need some structure to the week having been in full time education for so long and then suddenly being faced with nothing but blank pages everyday. But after about a term and a half, I realised that most people there were more interested in talking about what they were going to write than writing what they were going to write. Yes, and she's a treasure, bless her little cotton socks. I'm interested in, just seem to fit better into children's stories than anywhere else.
Ideas are ten a penny.
The difficult bit is knowing which of them can be grown and shaped into a full protein-packed story and which are just time wasters. It's harder than writing for adults. Try entertaining strangers. By the time your own book's ready to jump on the bandwagon, it'll have stopped rolling. If it's good, other people will like it too.