Where do you get your ideas?
News, Writing|I’m blogging over at the Loose Ends authors blog today on the subject of where an author gets their ideas. Do drop by! The blog begins:
For a long time I would laugh whenever I heard a writer complain of a reader asking this question. I stopped laughing the day it happened to me. I was on holiday in Tuscany in a hotel largely taken over by British visitors. I avoided the conversations involving work and questions of what everyone did for a living as long as I could. After all, when on holiday why talk about work? I also strongly feel that a person isn’t necessarily shaped by what they do for a living. If a person is lucky enough to make their hobby their career, then perhaps there’s some truth to be found in how a person earns their income. However, many people work in jobs they detest. They do what they need to do to pay the bills, and have to regulate what they love to do to hours outside of the office. This applies to most writers, but that’s another subject.
So, when a woman asked me what I ‘do’, sheer devilment took hold of me and I said “I’m a writer.” This is the truth and it’s closer to who I am than anything I’ve had to do keep a roof over my head or put food on the table. Her eyes positively lit up.
“I’ve never met a writer before,” she said. “Where DO you get your ideas?”
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