"Where do you get your ideas from?"
I suppose ever author gets asked this question.
Whenever Patricia Highsmith was asked this, she used to reply, "Out of thin air."
Whenever I get asked, I usually say, "From everywhere!"
This is true.
I can be in the shower - why do so many good ideas come to writers when they're in the shower? Because it's not just me - walking down to the village, watching TV...
Ideas sneak up on me.
These days I call such ideas Plot Bunny Attacks, and I keep a folder for just such attacks.
Back in 2016, I was reading a post from Reddit. about a straight man who got asked out on a date by a gay man he met on a train. He said yes. He was quite excited by the prospect, if a little apprehensive about his lack of experience of gay sex. He communicated this to his date, who said not to worry, and they'd play it by ear.
As far as I know, that was the last we heard from him. I would love to know how the date went.
At the time, I saved the post. I was certain there was a book in it.
Well... there was. I'm a few chapters away from finishing it, actually.
Why write it now?
One of my recent books was Here For You. I wrote it intending for it to be light, low angst... Yeah. It didn't go as planned. I don't regret that one of my main characters ended up suffering from male depression, and I'm glad that I got to bring this to light, but no, it wasn't the book I'd thought I was writing.
So I went through my Plot Bunnies folder, looking for a book that was light, sweet, low angst, sexy...
You guessed it. I found my saved Reddit post. And thus was born Gay on a Train.
No, I have no idea why I chose that title, but it suits the book perfectly.
I'd originally planned for it to be a Gay For You or Out For You story, but Lee, my narrator, is definitely bisexual.
It differs from my usual style in that it's in the first person, and only from Lee's POV. The only other book I've written like that was BFF. And it has a distinctly British flavour.
So far, it's going according to plan.
There are no heavy angsty moments suddenly appearing out of the blue. No traumas. Just two cute guys meeting each other, having fun, and one of them discovering he's not as straight as he thought he was...
It's due for release July 6, so I'd better get my skates on and finish it. LOL
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08BK299KM
Whenever Patricia Highsmith was asked this, she used to reply, "Out of thin air."
Whenever I get asked, I usually say, "From everywhere!"
This is true.
I can be in the shower - why do so many good ideas come to writers when they're in the shower? Because it's not just me - walking down to the village, watching TV...
Ideas sneak up on me.
These days I call such ideas Plot Bunny Attacks, and I keep a folder for just such attacks.
Back in 2016, I was reading a post from Reddit. about a straight man who got asked out on a date by a gay man he met on a train. He said yes. He was quite excited by the prospect, if a little apprehensive about his lack of experience of gay sex. He communicated this to his date, who said not to worry, and they'd play it by ear.
As far as I know, that was the last we heard from him. I would love to know how the date went.
At the time, I saved the post. I was certain there was a book in it.
Well... there was. I'm a few chapters away from finishing it, actually.
Why write it now?
One of my recent books was Here For You. I wrote it intending for it to be light, low angst... Yeah. It didn't go as planned. I don't regret that one of my main characters ended up suffering from male depression, and I'm glad that I got to bring this to light, but no, it wasn't the book I'd thought I was writing.
So I went through my Plot Bunnies folder, looking for a book that was light, sweet, low angst, sexy...
You guessed it. I found my saved Reddit post. And thus was born Gay on a Train.
No, I have no idea why I chose that title, but it suits the book perfectly.
I'd originally planned for it to be a Gay For You or Out For You story, but Lee, my narrator, is definitely bisexual.
It differs from my usual style in that it's in the first person, and only from Lee's POV. The only other book I've written like that was BFF. And it has a distinctly British flavour.
So far, it's going according to plan.
There are no heavy angsty moments suddenly appearing out of the blue. No traumas. Just two cute guys meeting each other, having fun, and one of them discovering he's not as straight as he thought he was...
It's due for release July 6, so I'd better get my skates on and finish it. LOL
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08BK299KM
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I keep a pad of paper by my bed for ideas.... I have also found until I get most of the story (definitely the unpolished version) down on paper I can't go on to something else. I tend to write the story as I am going to sleep at night.