So last night I ate Chinese food.
I want to bed.
I had crazy wierd dreams about very cheesy pizza...
And a title came to me.
This kind of bizarre, magical title not linked to anything.
I want to write a story around this title. I want to create this character.
How wierd, right?
Sometimes phrases come to me in dreams. I'll get maybe a cool sentence and that's it. I don't dream about vampires in meadows or anything like that.
But I dreamed of this title last night. I wrote it down. And I still like it! Aw!
Where do you get ideas from? Do you write around a character? A book title? A single scene? It's always so fascinating for me how a whole story can spring up from a single seed of something.
For Leslie Lee, I had the hook first. I then created Leslie. And she drove the story. Everything else came after.
I don't know where my ideas come from. Sometimes I can go months without one so I don't write. Then all at once I get like two ideas and I work furiously to get them out.
ReplyDeleteI have no idea where my ideas come from. The inspiration for The Silagree came to me when I was in the bath. The line, 'Bad things happen at the Silagree' just popped into my head. Then I had to know what exactly the Silagree was and what bad things happened there.
ReplyDeleteYeah, my ideas are kind of random. One was a scene from a dream, and I really like where it's going. Oddly enough, the instant I woke up, I scribbled the MCs name on my hand. When I checked it a few minutes later, it wasn't at ALL my handwriting. Weird, yes?
ReplyDeleteOther times... well, it could be anything. Books, movies, ideas, a lost phrase in a conversation, a 'what if' question. :) Anything.
Story comes first, randomly or maybe from some otherworldy source...ok prob not but I am still freaking over Bethany's comment.lol
ReplyDeleteTitles just pop in my head from the story and you know I'm a big fan of the one word titles. Although not so much for this new one but you will see soon enough...
I would definitely read anything to do with cheesy pizza though.lol