The author provided these questions and answers for Scholastic Network students.
Ideas are funny, slippery things.
You never quite know where they come from. Sometimes I can be doing nothing, or so I think, and suddenly a thought pops into my head. Other times I'll be reading something and my mind wanders and suddenly I realize I'm thinking about something interesting. Sometimes ideas come up when I'm talking with friends, reading a newspaper, or looking at a picture of something. You just never know when an idea will leap up.