The Writer Joy From Falling Down Creative Rabbit Holes #MondayBlogs
Are there any fellow writers who, like me, enjoy falling down what I call creative rabbit holes?
I define creative rabbit holes as subjects, ideas, periods in time, events, theories, people or concepts which not only catch your attention but they send your writer brain into a frenzy. These ideas and concepts are so dazzling and beautiful when you first come across them that you can’t imagine going on with your daily life without a little peek. In a desperate attempt to follow the idea / concept and find out more you find yourself falling into an imaginary rabbit hole. Here you will stay for a few days or months or in some cases years. Once in your creative rabbit hole you will read up on this idea / subject, research it and create endless ideas for stories and books. It will be a very pleasurable and nourishing experience for you, the writer. The bit you will struggle with will be climbing out of the hole and actually writing something on the topic – ha!
My writing life has been punctuated with imaginary creative rabbit holes. I think my first experience with falling down a creative rabbit hole was when I started writing seriously (about ten years ago) and I became attracted to the idea of immortality and living forever. I allowed myself to read as many books as I could on the subject, I filled notebooks with ideas, I wrote 25k words of a story, I googled the hell out of the concept and I had some mad, late night conversations with others on drunken nights out. This for me all part of the creative rabbit hole experience.
You’re probably thinking these are like shiny new story ideas. I suppose in a way they are, but I prefer the rabbit hole to come before the shiny new idea.
Writing contemporary romance will always be big for me but I do have other genres in me.
My latest creative rabbit hole is the idea that there are multiple universes all running at the same time and there are multiple versions of ourselves. These universes split apart when we make a decision or something happens in our life; good or bad. This rabbit hole led me to buy some books from my favourite second hand book shop, buy new notebooks, write out plans for two future book ideas, watch TikToks, google a lot and watch a load of related films. Goodness me I am enjoying myself down here.
Things I have come to know about creative rabbit holes:
1. They have a habit of appearing when you are stuck whilst writing a novel on a different subject 
Procrastination is so enjoyable!
2. They are time robbers. Once in a creative rabbit hole you will lose track of time.
3. You will never forget how they made you feel
Creative rabbit holes are fun to fall down and are good for our writing souls.
