So what if?
by Dietrich Kalteis
What sources do you draw on for ideas for your stories?
Ideas can spring from just about anywhere: memories, headlines, newscasts, personal experience, what happened to the neighbor, dreams, song lyrics. They can be imagined or borrowed, and when I find something interesting I often find myself thinking, “so what if?” And it starts me writing a single scene. And from that, it leads to the next scene.
The idea for my first novel Ride the Lightning came from a bit of dial...
What sources do you draw on for ideas for your stories?
Ideas can spring from just about anywhere: memories, headlines, newscasts, personal experience, what happened to the neighbor, dreams, song lyrics. They can be imagined or borrowed, and when I find something interesting I often find myself thinking, “so what if?” And it starts me writing a single scene. And from that, it leads to the next scene.
The idea for my first novel Ride the Lightning came from a bit of dial...
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