Well Meaning Person: Hi Rebecca, how is your writing going?
Me: Oh, it's going well. Thanks for asking. (Smiles)
Well Meaning Person: Where do your ideas come from?
Me: Ahhhh....
So as writers this is a funny question because sometimes the answer is 'at the Deli.'
Let me ask you then, where is the funniest place a writing idea came to you?
Strangely, I get my best ideas when I am ironing. You can forget the clothes coz they'll get scorched!
ReplyDeleteThe other strangest and dangerous ones are when I am driving a long stretch of straight motorway in the fast lane and pop comes a new idea!
Ideas have come:
ReplyDeleteIn the shower.
While driving (which is both good and bad. DD's comp schedule means there's a lot of driving. Good. Me behind the wheel when idea pops and no way to write it down. Bad).
On a boat (several times over because I'm on a boat quite frequently).
At Disney World.
DD's dance competition and surrounded by pre-teens.
The best place for me to work my sub-plots and story line is walking something about moving and moving the story---- I don't get it either but I'm a writer so things aren't suppose to make sense.
ReplyDeleteThe most usual/embarassing/ackward is me and hubby were settling in for an afternoon nap (as with no clothes) and WHAM an entire idea w/full characters hit me. He said I had better sell the book when it was done and thankfully I did.
Those are awesome!
ReplyDeleteI wasn't joking. I've had ideas come to me in line at the deli.
Also the zoo, on an airplane, and walking around Ground Zero in NYC.
I had an idea come to me in a restaurant, too. I also write foodie romance, so I get food ideas everywhere.
ReplyDeleteI get ideas in dreams a lot. I even had one dream where the entire plot happened during the dream. Complete with fight scene. It was awesome.
I also got an idea at a recital once. Ha. That was a fun one.
I love reading these comments. It's cool to see where everyone's ideas come from. :-)
Rebecca--you and Stephanie Myers. She says the whole Twilight series came from a dream. Did you write that one?
ReplyDeleteI outlined Catch while stuck at the Atlanta airport. I remember texting you and Joann. LOL
ReplyDeleteAnnie, I remember that!! LOL
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