How do you get inspired to write?

Ideas just pop into my head. I jot them down immediately to save them. Then I have to go put that puzzle piece into the right place in my books.

Usually when moving. I like to take walks out of the neighborhood. I've learned to take a notepad and pen or my phone to jot a note, because they come often.

Talking about things helps me brainstorm, so walking and talking with my fiance'e about a world, tech, or character building problem I'm writing helps unstick me.

Thomas Edison said "Ideas come from space." His friends said that was his way of expressing that God dropped inspiration out of nowhere into his mind. I would agree with that.

Another time ideas come is when laying down to sleep. We get the conscious mind out of the way and can hear our subconcious tell us what we were too busy to bring to conciousness. I think this is what Edison meant. He had tricks for using sleepiness to force ideas. Read about him.

How did I get inspired to write my novel?
I am a contrarian. Over 40+ years of enjoying reading and watching scifi, I often had the thought: “One day if I write a novel, I’d do this that way…”

I had reactions to “Hitchhiker’s Guide,” Star Trek, and some major themes of the scifi genre in general, which helped me slowly build my galaxy/worlds in my mind.

What happened to me is, these “what if” questions about the past and future of mankind have percolated in the back of my head for a long time, questions inspired by the genre, my contrarian nature, and my observations as I simmered through life. I needed to catch fire!

Then along the journey, I conceived of my own kind of heroic character. I took the name of the largest Asteroid in Sol system, Ceres, and added the name of one kind of surviving remnant of a supernova, the T-Tauri star, and named him “Ceres Tauri.” I feel this name carries major expectations for him.

He is like my imaginary friend, and he tells me these crazy stories! I got excited thinking of him and how he would live in this speculated future of Earth I imagined! I wrote it down. I feel like his biographer.

I told others, showed more still. They caught my enthusiasm for my character, my story. They encouraged me to share it with you, the reader, the sci-fi fan, the world! They got me fired up to write more!

I imagined, what kind of MFL, main female lead character, would Ceres match up with best? One day I was writing a kind of fanfic, casting about for a character hook and saw a great example come on TV, the “Lord of the Dance” on HBO.

There we go: Tall, Irish, Redhead, Dancer. Great character hook.

I imagined what might the classic Irish folks become if there was a colony full of them on some dangerous planet? I think I created a good foil for Ceres. She has abilities of her own that complement but fustigate his. He can be all Mr. Bond James Bond on the asteroids but she works from a different skillset that baffles him.

So, the basis of ongoing inspiration is, I am creating this grand Galactic setting that I enjoy world building. I have these great characters who live there (yes in my head) They go on being themselves and the interactions are high drama and action and great dialogue.

I often leave bed at 11 pm and run to the computer to jot down notes for a scene that just popped in my head out of space. Some of my best work comes that way. *Poof* Thank you, God.


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