Where do your ideas come from?
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- KS Crooks
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Re: Where do your ideas come from?
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I may just be daydreaming or people-watching and suddenly I'll get an idea - usually in the form of a title or tagline! It's weird and strange because both of those are followed with a strong desire to jot down a plot line ... and if I don't do it immediately, the jest of my "idea" is gone.
I usually try to record these on my phone or tablet, whichever one is handiest; my computer if I'm sitting in my home office. Although semi-retired, I lead an extremely active lifestyle which includes raising a teenage granddaughter, giving care to my youngest daughter who is in a wheelchair - but only when needed - and lastly by taking time with my middle daughter who has recently been diagnosed with a very rare form of leukemia. So while I dream of finishing the many manuscripts in assorted degrees of "done" which reside in limbo in a box beneath my bed, I keep getting new ideas on a daily basis! What to do? I'm not sure.
I have ideas aplenty - just no time to do anything concrete with them!
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I used to write my ideas in a blog which I deleted after a lot changed with my life.
I recently thought about writing again but to turn into a book. That blog was going to be my memoir of being an Army man's fiance.
Not sure where it'll go
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Suddenly I have an original story that I myself would enjoy reading.
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When I like a song, I'm always ending up creating a "music video" for it based on something I'm writing, and then I'm turning this "video" into an actual part of the story, an actual chapter of the book. I even have two characters who exist solely because of songs!
And then, there's travel. What I see, the people I meet, what I hear and eat... It makes me want to write. I don't travel that much by myself as it's expensive, so I'm taking advantage from everything I can: the memories of the school trips I did as a kid, the internships abroad I did in university, and now, my professional trips! I mean, I went to the Balkans to do insurance estimations for some of these villas in Montenegro, sure, I did spend most of my days there trying to speak with an architect from a foreign branch of the company and driving, but it did give birth to tons of ideas.
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