Inspiration & Interviews
As some of you know, a while ago we were running an online interview at the Facebook fan page. Some interesting questions came up, including where I get my inspiration from. Now, I answered that question as briefly and as best I could, but it did remind me of a story that I thought I'd share in a less space-restricted venue.
The first Unae trilogy is The Ossard Trilogy, and it will be followed by what is tentatively called the Blood Prince Trilogy. Both are already largely written, but originally, the first to be plotted was actually the Blood Prince.
While Ossard was originally conceived as a series of one page pieces of colour text over several magazine issues in the hallowed pages of Australian Realms Magazine, the beginnings of the Blood Prince Trilogy actually came to me like, well, like a bolt out of the blue.
Or more truthfully, like a CD flying through the air at a nightclub to crack me on the forehead.
Let me explain:
One night I was out listening to some music and relaxing amidst Perth's clubland, taking in its lights and thumping beats. Later, after a bit of onstage entertainment, the MC came on stage and threw some promotional material out into the audience. One of these items, a new release CD single, quite literally hit me in the head.
It was an amusing moment, if somewhat surprising.
Luckily I had a pocket big enough to stow away my heaven sent gift. So, despite having never heard of the song or artist, I stuffed it in my pocket and took it home.
Later, when back at my apartment, I dug it out and put it on. It was surprising, not some piece of light weight clubland fluff, but a gritty vocal over a moving orchestral soundtrack.
To this day it still puts a shiver down my spine.
The track was Furious Angels by Rob Dougan, and it immediately made a mark on me. Listening to the words and the power of the music, I immediately envisioned a terrible and heart breaking scene.
I saw a young lady cut down with her lifeblood bleeding away as she lay on her back, clutching at a stomach wound. Her murderer was storming off to leave her to her fate, him an angry and spurned suitor.
Alone, with her dying breaths, she called out with her own fury to summon her angelic (and recently deceased) lover to her side, the one she'd been forced apart from by her current suitor's deceit. She called him because she wanted him to meet her to help in her passing – and to avenge her.
A furious angel.
Inspiration can come in a lot of ways. It might paint a broad picture or just be built of emotion wound up in a brief moment or image. Either way, it's a seed that should be allowed to bloom.
On a CD single I found a trilogy.
What might I find somewhere else?
What about you?
The first Unae trilogy is The Ossard Trilogy, and it will be followed by what is tentatively called the Blood Prince Trilogy. Both are already largely written, but originally, the first to be plotted was actually the Blood Prince.
While Ossard was originally conceived as a series of one page pieces of colour text over several magazine issues in the hallowed pages of Australian Realms Magazine, the beginnings of the Blood Prince Trilogy actually came to me like, well, like a bolt out of the blue.
Or more truthfully, like a CD flying through the air at a nightclub to crack me on the forehead.
Let me explain:
One night I was out listening to some music and relaxing amidst Perth's clubland, taking in its lights and thumping beats. Later, after a bit of onstage entertainment, the MC came on stage and threw some promotional material out into the audience. One of these items, a new release CD single, quite literally hit me in the head.
It was an amusing moment, if somewhat surprising.
Luckily I had a pocket big enough to stow away my heaven sent gift. So, despite having never heard of the song or artist, I stuffed it in my pocket and took it home.
Later, when back at my apartment, I dug it out and put it on. It was surprising, not some piece of light weight clubland fluff, but a gritty vocal over a moving orchestral soundtrack.
To this day it still puts a shiver down my spine.
The track was Furious Angels by Rob Dougan, and it immediately made a mark on me. Listening to the words and the power of the music, I immediately envisioned a terrible and heart breaking scene.
I saw a young lady cut down with her lifeblood bleeding away as she lay on her back, clutching at a stomach wound. Her murderer was storming off to leave her to her fate, him an angry and spurned suitor.
Alone, with her dying breaths, she called out with her own fury to summon her angelic (and recently deceased) lover to her side, the one she'd been forced apart from by her current suitor's deceit. She called him because she wanted him to meet her to help in her passing – and to avenge her.
A furious angel.
Inspiration can come in a lot of ways. It might paint a broad picture or just be built of emotion wound up in a brief moment or image. Either way, it's a seed that should be allowed to bloom.
On a CD single I found a trilogy.
What might I find somewhere else?
What about you?
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