Ian Mayfield
All the books in my Special Crime Unit series are planned to have multiple plotlines, so the ideas germinate from a variety of sources: things I've experienced or heard about personally, news stories, TV shows, other books, mental "what if?" speculations or a chance overheard remark. I have an ever-growing Word document with a long list of possible plots, which I check off as I use them.
Team Spirit and its upcoming sequels also feature a collective hero rather than a single protagonist; the main characters are mostly based on people I know or have known, though not necessarily all at the same time. The book is also, to use Tolkien's expression, "a tale that grew in the telling", so in most cases the people who now populate its pages bear little resemblance to their prototypes... which is probably just as well!
Team Spirit and its upcoming sequels also feature a collective hero rather than a single protagonist; the main characters are mostly based on people I know or have known, though not necessarily all at the same time. The book is also, to use Tolkien's expression, "a tale that grew in the telling", so in most cases the people who now populate its pages bear little resemblance to their prototypes... which is probably just as well!
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