William
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Rhiannon Frater:
Where did you get the idea for your book "The First Days" ? I am currently reading it and love it so far.
Rhiannon Frater
I was at my old day job when I had a moment of inspiration. Those tiny fingers under the door! So during my break I wrote what I thought was a short story. It's the very first scene in the book, by the way. I posted it online and people who read it asked "Where's the rest?" Like a scene out of the Matrix, in that moment the rest of the story "downloaded" into my brain. So for two years I wrote the story online. Later, I self-published it. Tor picked it up in 2010 and I revised it for the reissue.
So where did I get the idea?
I was heavily influenced by traveling across Texas and meeting all sorts of interesting people in the small towns. I was a governmental consultant on a federal grant, so I interacted a lot with the city officials of these tiny towns and interviewed their residents. I'm sure all of that mushed together in my imagination and gave birth to the story.
I don't plot my books. I just write what I see on the movie screen in my head. I'm sure my muse is just a collection of information I've absorbed over time, or maybe it's more mystical than that. I don't know.
In a way, I feel like Jenni and Katie found me, and I was the lucky writer who got to tell their story.
So where did I get the idea?
I was heavily influenced by traveling across Texas and meeting all sorts of interesting people in the small towns. I was a governmental consultant on a federal grant, so I interacted a lot with the city officials of these tiny towns and interviewed their residents. I'm sure all of that mushed together in my imagination and gave birth to the story.
I don't plot my books. I just write what I see on the movie screen in my head. I'm sure my muse is just a collection of information I've absorbed over time, or maybe it's more mystical than that. I don't know.
In a way, I feel like Jenni and Katie found me, and I was the lucky writer who got to tell their story.
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