WHERE DO IDEAS COME FROM?
It’s a mystery. I can honestly say I don´t have a clue. The idea for my novel came up overnight. I was having a dream and a voice channeled through my brain speaking in the first person. I don´t remember the words, but I realized it was a young girl and she was talking about her child being stolen. Without knowing where this was going, I started typing whatever came into my head.
It was a story!
For nights and nights, after working an eight-hour or even a ten-hour day at my official job, I sat up in bed after midnight and clacked away at the plot. My snoring husband beside me, bless his soul, didn´t complain… actually seemed to be soundly asleep. It was only several months, and many chapters later that I overheard him tell a dinner guest that my noisy fingers on the keyboard were giving him insomnia! And I thought I was the insomniac!
The writing honeymoon soon came to an end. As the plot got more twisted I had to begin to rereading what I had written the day before, and make brief outlines for what came ahead.
However, my plans were often foiled. My characters had a mind of their own. Others turned up out of the blue. All took me along unfamiliar roads. Once on a new path, though I often enjoyed the scenery. At times I felt I was reading someone else´s story. I was surprised by the unexpected plots and characters, but never annoyed by them.
The final chapter was the most surprising. I had no idea the novel would end that way. But when I had finished writing it, I liked it!
I hope you will like it too!