Anju Gattani's Blog - Posts Tagged "ideas"
Novel Ideas
Hi,
I was just Tweeting with another author, the wonderful RITA HERRON (Yes, Rita Herron!!) to be precise and realized that something I take as 'normal' in my everyday life - is actually strange for so many.
I'be been asked so many times now... where my story ideas come from. Do I imagine them? Do I take them from real life? Do I get them from something I read?
The truth is ideas for novels come to me in my dreams. Yes, my dreams. I usually (yes, it's become normal now) see the end of something first. It's usually a dramatic scene, a do-or-die situation, and I wake up with my heart racing.
It never hits me instantly... it takes a while for things to sink in and for the realization to dawn, that this is another scene, usually THE END, to another fiction novel.
Where do you get your ideas from?
I was just Tweeting with another author, the wonderful RITA HERRON (Yes, Rita Herron!!) to be precise and realized that something I take as 'normal' in my everyday life - is actually strange for so many.
I'be been asked so many times now... where my story ideas come from. Do I imagine them? Do I take them from real life? Do I get them from something I read?
The truth is ideas for novels come to me in my dreams. Yes, my dreams. I usually (yes, it's become normal now) see the end of something first. It's usually a dramatic scene, a do-or-die situation, and I wake up with my heart racing.
It never hits me instantly... it takes a while for things to sink in and for the realization to dawn, that this is another scene, usually THE END, to another fiction novel.
Where do you get your ideas from?
