Where do you think authors get their inspiration?
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Re: Where do you think authors get their inspiration?
But then, since my stories are modern day and realistic, I use, as you say, all sorts of other inspirations from my own life and experiences, and from things which I've seen or read about, except of course no plagiarizing.
For example, my wonderful live-in girlfriend enjoys watching goofy action movies and TV shows. And when someone gets shot dead or maybe crushed flat by some demonic robot, she'll say, totally deadpan, "ouch" -- which makes me laugh. And so the new girlfriend of my private eye does this herself. Now this fictional character is in no way like my real life gal. I only borrowed this one humorous treat from her.
Likewise, I'll create characters from real life friends -- maybe I'll have a real life pal who's a computer engineer, and I'll take him and make him an architect but with the same physique and speech patterns. None of this of course is negative toward the friend. Or I might take a friend's physical description only, but make the character a totally different person from the real one.
What I have to be careful about is to have read a mystery thriller from a famous author six months previous, and then accidentally "think up" a plot sequence which in fact is borrowed from that book. It can happen totally accidentally with zero purpose of stealing the story idea.
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In all truthfulness, I am never lacking in ideas or inspiration. It's the process of getting those ideas down onto the page (screen, actually) which is the challenge.
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All my stories are simply cooked up by thinking, "I want to write about.... hmmm... a careful vampire? a strange tale of suspense? a monster which lurks upstairs in the apartment just above where the poor guy lives?"
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