Michelle L. Levigne
Many ways.
1 -- I see a movie/TV show or read a book where I want the story to keep going, or I like a character or situation that makes me go, "Hmm, what if ..." and I fiddle with the society, the "toys" and history or magical/telepathic powers. The characters become so "real" to me that they demand to have their story told. I must obey.
2 -- I see a movie/TV show or read a book that just did NOT make sense. Utterly stupid. Logic holes big enough to fly the Enterprise through. I want to fix it. I want to figure out how it SHOULD have ended or the problems/challenges should have been faced/resolved. Or I hear writer friends griping about utterly stupid TV shows or movies or books, and we talk about how they should have been done, and then that launches me in a totally new direction, hopefully for a better story.
3 -- I have dreams, images that stick in my head that just won't let go. There have been mornings when I wake up and can't get the image, the fragments of the dream out of my head, and I keep thinking about it, filling in the holes .... and by the time I'm heading to the office, I have a couple pages of notes that will someday turn into the outline or at least the foundation of a book. Or several.
1 -- I see a movie/TV show or read a book where I want the story to keep going, or I like a character or situation that makes me go, "Hmm, what if ..." and I fiddle with the society, the "toys" and history or magical/telepathic powers. The characters become so "real" to me that they demand to have their story told. I must obey.
2 -- I see a movie/TV show or read a book that just did NOT make sense. Utterly stupid. Logic holes big enough to fly the Enterprise through. I want to fix it. I want to figure out how it SHOULD have ended or the problems/challenges should have been faced/resolved. Or I hear writer friends griping about utterly stupid TV shows or movies or books, and we talk about how they should have been done, and then that launches me in a totally new direction, hopefully for a better story.
3 -- I have dreams, images that stick in my head that just won't let go. There have been mornings when I wake up and can't get the image, the fragments of the dream out of my head, and I keep thinking about it, filling in the holes .... and by the time I'm heading to the office, I have a couple pages of notes that will someday turn into the outline or at least the foundation of a book. Or several.
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