Paloma
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Elizabeth Hoyt:
I adore your books so much! I've been binging them for 3 weeks and I'm near the end! I wanted to ask...where did you get your inspiration from? this is so unique! do you read any books for research? I'm obsessed with how you write this! Its soooo good!
Elizabeth Hoyt
What a lovely compliment, Paloma--thank you!
Oddly I get most of my inspiration for characters and story lines from current TV shows and movies. But it's not like I see a TV show and immediately want to write Tyrion Lannister as my next hero. It's more that I see something in a movie or TV show that provokes strong emotion in me or the general zeitgeist and I want to try and capture that. For instance, for a while I was obsessed with Spock in the first new Star Trek movies--why he was so attractive when he hardly emoted at all, what others saw in him, what his relationship with his own emotions and others was. That led to a lot of the characterization of Winter Makepeace in Thief of Shadows.
As far as research books go, yes, I'm usually reading at least one research book at any given time. They're more for historical background, though. I've got Boswell's Life of Johnson queued up on my Nook at the moment, although I haven't dipped in to it for a bit. ;-)
Oddly I get most of my inspiration for characters and story lines from current TV shows and movies. But it's not like I see a TV show and immediately want to write Tyrion Lannister as my next hero. It's more that I see something in a movie or TV show that provokes strong emotion in me or the general zeitgeist and I want to try and capture that. For instance, for a while I was obsessed with Spock in the first new Star Trek movies--why he was so attractive when he hardly emoted at all, what others saw in him, what his relationship with his own emotions and others was. That led to a lot of the characterization of Winter Makepeace in Thief of Shadows.
As far as research books go, yes, I'm usually reading at least one research book at any given time. They're more for historical background, though. I've got Boswell's Life of Johnson queued up on my Nook at the moment, although I haven't dipped in to it for a bit. ;-)
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