Stumbled across this site while blog hopping today. Interesting read. Authors are sharing where/why/how they got their ideas for their books. Give it a look.
I got the germ of an idea for one of my romantic suspsense books while visiting my sister who was staying at the Stanley Hotel in Estes Park. The halls wind and turn. The woodwork is gorgeous. It just seems the kind of place to have lots of hidden secrets…hidden rooms and passageways. It just screams of interesting history.
One book sprang out of reading about the flooding out of a town to make Lake of the Ozarks in Missouri. They just moved an entire town of people out, and flooded the town. The secrets beneath that lake just wouldn’t let go of me.
So, where to you get your ideas?
I get ideas from the news a lot of times! A crime story, or an archaeological story, or a history story…. Then the what ifs start.
:coffee: Yes, from the news or a snippet of overheard conversation or sometimes just out of a :beer: haze….. and then I start what-iff-ing it.
I get ideas from everywhere; TV, magazines, overheard conversations . . . I’m a shameless eavesdropper. 😛
okay, I get ideas from everywhere too. But what’s the weirdest, most unusual place you’ve gotten an idea from?
Mostly I get my ideas from weird dreams I’ve had. 🙂 Sometimes, though, something I’ve seen on the Discovery Channel or the History Channel or National Geographic Channel will spark an idea.
But since you asked, I’d have to say my dreams are the weirdest place I’ve gotten an idea. 🙂
Hmmm…I’d say dreams mostly. Sometimes from other books or from movies I’ve watched. I’ll take an idea and twist it to make it mine. 😎
Interesting you should blog about ideas today…I did too, or about my current LACK of ideas! LOL
I won’t swear to this but I think the Stanley Hotel is where Psycho was filmed. I’ve been by it many times but have never been inside. I can just imagine how cool, even eerie, the inside must be. 🙂
Oh! I forgot about the ideas I sometimes get out of the blue when I’m in the shower! :bath: