Back to Ideas … Where Do They Come From?

Usually ideas for a novel grow slowly, gathering over a period of weeks or months from bits and pieces that cling to a central idea.

I have such a novel idea gathering now, even while I’m deeply immersed in writing another. And because I’m writing this blog I’ve been more intentional than usual lately in noting the way that gathering process works.

I have known from the moment I finished writing Little Dog, Lost that I wanted to return to the town of Erthly and to the characters I created there...