Goodreads asked Colin Darney:

Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?

Colin Darney I'd love to know that myself. I have told people the honest truth that I 'vomited out' book 1. (please excuse the vulgar description there) I never had any aspirations to become an author. Read books? Sure. Write them? Oh, heck no. Resthaven, in its original 120,000-word form, came out of nowhere over the process of 6 weeks where I would sit and type, collapse for a couple of hours, then wake up and type some more. It was physically and emotionally exhausting, and something I've never experienced before. Book 2 is very similar, as I fall into an almost fugue state where I can see the scene in my mind and I'm desperately trying to type as fast as I can to capture it. What happens just 'flows' from one image to the next like episodes for a TV show, or scenes in a movie. I may have a loose idea of where I want the story to go, but I certainly don't plot out chapter by chapter what takes place. I'm told this makes me a 'pantser', being someone who writes 'flying by the seat of their pants', but I don't pay much attention to the label. I just write what comes to mind.

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