Ever see a building that’s so bizarre it sticks with you? Over at io9, they have an article listing some usual looking buildings. Buildings that look like UFO crash landings Sometimes a building is like an architectural alien. The bizarrely-shaped museums in these photographs are so different from the city around them that it’s as…
Have you ever gotten a character, scene or worldbuilding idea you never thought you needed? Last year, I read a post by Kelly Hashway where she talked about the playlist for her book. It got me thinking. If my characters had their own music video, what would the song be? It’s been a lot of fun….
Ever have a story idea that just stuck with you? You write the story then, months or years later, you reread it and…it’s garbage. Instead of using it for spare parts like the others, you start over. You repeat this until you’ve rewritten the same story maybe four or five times. The characters didn’t ensnare…
Characters have been fleshed out, the world building is done, the story arch is set- now, my novel is writing itself. My characters are telling me what they would say or do in this situation. The world is showing me what would happen next. It’s telling me the powers don’t work that way, they work this…
So where do my story ideas come from? Everywhere is the most obvious answer and it’s true, but I’d like to be a bit more specific. It’s a stretch to call them ideas because my stories are born more from a scene or an image. A couple of years ago, I remember vaguely my brother…
