Aimee Hix
About a decade ago, I heard a news story on the radio as I was commuting to my old day job. My drive was about 45 minutes each way so I had plenty of time to play What If? What If? is the center gear to any story.
Over the course of years of commutes I kept coming back to the story and morphing it over and over until one day, the main character of my book began to talk to me about her life and her work.
About that time, my mentor presented himself to me and said, "If you have anything I'm happy to read it and talk about it with you." He was very low-key - I'm here to help and advise if you want it. It took about three months before I had the courage to send him the five-page synopsis I did up.
He called me five minutes after I sent it and told me that I had to write it, that it was a story that needed to be told. About six weeks later I started writing when I was challenged by another writer friend to the 100 words for 100 days prompt.
Ideas come from everywhere. There is a little bit of everything in the book from all different places. If I gave you the news story that this idea came from you wouldn't recognize it, at all. The beginning of the idea is less important than asking yourself What If? when you hear something that intrigues you.
Over the course of years of commutes I kept coming back to the story and morphing it over and over until one day, the main character of my book began to talk to me about her life and her work.
About that time, my mentor presented himself to me and said, "If you have anything I'm happy to read it and talk about it with you." He was very low-key - I'm here to help and advise if you want it. It took about three months before I had the courage to send him the five-page synopsis I did up.
He called me five minutes after I sent it and told me that I had to write it, that it was a story that needed to be told. About six weeks later I started writing when I was challenged by another writer friend to the 100 words for 100 days prompt.
Ideas come from everywhere. There is a little bit of everything in the book from all different places. If I gave you the news story that this idea came from you wouldn't recognize it, at all. The beginning of the idea is less important than asking yourself What If? when you hear something that intrigues you.
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