A writers group I belong to asked to do a profile on me, and one of the questions was, "Where do you get the ideas for your stories?"
I didn't have a glamorous answer, just that sometimes I have a fuzzy idea of a character, or maybe an opening line. I sit down and type and see what happens.
I've been sitting down and typing and seeing what happens to my current WIP, although this time I have a few more ideas of what I want or need to write about next, a rough bulleted list of plot points I know the story will hit. I just don't know how the story will get there or what the characters will do at those points. I just write and hope that these folks I've created know enough by now to keep causing trouble.
How about you? Do you get ideas for stories, or do you show up and see what happens?
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
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I get a lot of story ideas from dreams. Sometimes an overheard snatch of conversation or a person I pass on the street sets my imagination off. Generally, I don't write to theme; I write what interests me.
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