K.B. Elijah
Two very different methods.
One, I go for a swim. The repetitive moment, up and down the pool, with nothing to do but think, really helps my imagination (although it's often water-based scenes because damn it, I write from my environment).
The second is to surround myself with people. On a train, in a park, in a shopping centre. You start noticing little mannerisms - the way she tucks her hair behind her ear there, the way that man starts each sentence with "see, the thing is", the careful way that boy is chewing around his crusts here. And it starts writing itself.
One, I go for a swim. The repetitive moment, up and down the pool, with nothing to do but think, really helps my imagination (although it's often water-based scenes because damn it, I write from my environment).
The second is to surround myself with people. On a train, in a park, in a shopping centre. You start noticing little mannerisms - the way she tucks her hair behind her ear there, the way that man starts each sentence with "see, the thing is", the careful way that boy is chewing around his crusts here. And it starts writing itself.
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