Happy Hump Day peeps!
Yeah, it’s a gloom Wednesday where I’m from. Sky overcast and full of snow clouds…a real dull day ya know? I’m just about to sit down and finish up the second chapter in a new YA. I figured while my agent is looking at my first, I may as well start another….ya know..just in case Laura hates the first!
Now this particular story came to me. With an opening line and a visual. Much like my first book I sold to Avon. I had just recieved a rejection for a vampire story that I loved and knew that maybe I needed to try something different. I thought about it, and decided that I wanted to do a story where the Hero is faced with his ex lover and the fact that she betrayed him somehow.
So I visualized my Hero arriving in a small town intent on killing his ex lover, as her betrayal resulted in an ambush on his unit. Of course this is a romance so he didn’t kill her, but that first visual in my mind set the tone for the entire story and I sat down and wrote it, and I just kept trucking along until I had a 98k word ms.
How cool is that?
Now with this YA, it’s coming along and I started it pretty much the same way. With an idea and a scene in my head.
Got me to thinking…how do all you writers out there come up with ideas? do you read articles? research strange stories on the net? read books and come up with your own spin?
What? Share with me!
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I order my ideas at Amazon! Eveyone who is Anyone knows Amazon is poised to take over the world and you can’t go wrong getting EVERYTHING there!
All joking aside…um, yeah. Can I keep joking? Because almost every idea has come to me a different way!
But I agree, some are easier than others. And when they land in with a killer first line and a fully formed opening, they are far more agreeable ‘children to raise’!
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I hear ya Lainey! with me, they almost always start as a scene in my head. I love movies and I write my books like they’re movies…never plot, or outline….and I’m pretty much editing as I go too….would fail miserably at NANO!
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It’s a gloomy Friday here, too. I woke up with a hint of sun and haven’t seen it since lol.
My ideas usually come from…hmm, good question lol. I think I’d have to go with Lainey (including the scary Amazon ideas ordering, maybe they’ll have super saver shipping on that?) hehe. They come from different places, sometimes I see something in the world and I wonder how a certain character would react to the events around them. Then boom a character is born! Or I’m working on something else and I come up with another scenario entirely and thus a completely different story is born.
It’s wild. I think you just let your mind go where it takes you and seek the stories within. Hehe.
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Rae…the more I think about it, I just think it’s cool that we writers have the imagination to create new and different worlds….how cool is that? I guess that’s why I’m never bored being by myself! Whether it’s walking or what…I’m always thinking of things..fantasizing about different situations and thinking…what if?