Wizard, Please Give Me an Imagination

Best Halloween treat the kids got was this little "Wizard of Oz" book.  I've never read the book but its definitely a favorite movie of mine.  I started reading it from the perspective of an author.  I am just so amazed that anyone could be so imaginative.  I went to the library and happened to find a book called "Finding Oz" by Evan I. Schwartz, its about how the author of "The Wizard of Oz," L. Frank Baum, came up with the iconic story.  I'm enjoying reading the two books at once.  Its so inspiring to read about a successful person who failed and persevered.  I don't know what I'm going to write my story about but I'm feeling like the project is worth pursuing.

Possible Ideas so far for my book:

(1) Children's book with Montessori themes possibly about a marathon, incorporate a map, flag, counting, history of marathon

(2) Interviewing my grandmother and mother - writing about some family anecdotes but also about our shared experiences in being women, as in childbirth, child rearing, being a wife, first job, first date, etc. How similar/different the common experiences are?  How did our decisions create the lives we have? What does it all mean/benefit/impede to my own daughters' and their life decisions?

(3) Writing an outlandish fictional novel, I am enjoying thinking about this one a lot BUT everything I think of I feel like I can relate it back to a movie or TV show or something I've seen before... must keep thinking.  L. Frank Baum didn't write the "Wizard of Oz" first...