It’s time for another edition of The Insecure Writer’s Support Group, founded by Ninja Captain, Alex J. Cavanaugh.
June 3 question - Do most of your story ideas come from one place (the news, dreams, etc.) or do they hit from all over the place?
99% of my story ideas come from dreams. I will dream a scene, and if it is powerful and emotional enough, I will expand upon it during the day. Once I have a solid idea, I write it down. Some become stories, some are just too convoluted. (It took me several tries to make The Alien make sense, but I did!) But every published fiction books/story from me originated from a dream.
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Life notes...
My father-in-law was in the hospital last month and my husband spent a week in Arkansas with him. It’s just very frustrating. Hospitals and doctors suck. Their view of the elderly is “You are old and going to die soon so we don’t really care.”
On a more positive note, my garden is growing great.
And…I smashed my 5k time! 32:06. When I ran the Senior Game 5k on April 10th, I was at 36:06. Four minutes off in just six weeks! I am now in an elite group for my age. My ultimate goal is to do it in thirty minutes. (And the guys I ran against in the Senior Game 5k – I would’ve smoked them like a Christmas turkey as their time was over 33:00!!)
Where do your story ideas come from?
4 comments:
Wow, I'm kind of jealous that your dreams are so productive. I think I can count on one hand the number of decent ideas I've had from them! Hope your father-in-law is doing okay. Great job on your 5k.
I wrote one story based on a sentence that came to me during that in between asleep and awake time. It would be great if I could remember my dreams long enough to write about them.
I can't remember my dreams, so I'm a little jealous like Nick. Congrats on your senior 5k run.
Well done on the run! And yeah, doctors suck...
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