People often ask where do writers get their ideas? It seems intriguing to come up with a scene, develop characters, plot out the story, bleed repeatedly over every page and finally have a final product.
As the saying goes-truth is stranger than fiction-how many times do we hear a news story and say "I never would have thought of that, or seriously, someone did what?" Talk about suspending your disbelief-just pick up the paper or listen to the news, fiction has nothing on real life.
I don't think I'm the only writer out there in fiction-land that hears voices in my head, and listens as characters hold their own conversations, and clamor for their own stories.
I find it entertaining, and at the same time somewhat of a challenge, because at the most inopportune times they pop in and hold a conversation. That is how a premise for my new novella came about. The secondary characters from A Fire Within demanded their own story, and they will get it.
I don't even have a working title yet, but there have been so many stories about art recently that I won't have a problem selecting what kind of fraud, theft, or forgery I want to write about. The best part, it may be another joint venture with Amy Alessio and Mary Welk, set around Halloween 2012.
I wonder how many of us hear those voices that refuse to remain silent, and wind up in a story.
Till next time,
Margot Justes
A Hotel in Paris
www.mjustes.com
3 comments:
The voices. The voices. It's gets real bad when a wanna-be character starts making snide remarks about the character you're involved with at the moment.
Kay,
That's a relief,I'm not the only one. Agree on the snide remarks, they usually get their way.
Margot
I hear voices, too. So, I guess I'm normal after all.
Morgan Mandel
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