Jaydin
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Megan Crewe:
My favorite books series is the Fallen World books. I LOVED them. I just wanted to know, how do you get your ideas for writing?
Megan Crewe
I'm so glad to hear you enjoyed the Fallen World series! :) I get my ideas for stories from all over the place, but most of them are in some way inspired by other stories. I'm always reading and watching movies & TV shows and so on, and often I'll notice some element in someone else's story that I want to see explored from a different angle, or that I wish was simply explored more. Sometimes those niggling impulses turn into full blown stories of their own for me, given enough simmering time.
THE WAY WE FALL, for example, was technically inspired by a nightmare, but that nightmare was in turn inspired by reading a zombie novel. And my idea to have the virus be a "friendly flu" was partly in reaction to all the zombie stories I've seen, in which it always bothers me that zombies seem to have so easily infected most of the world despite acting so horribly any normal person would run away from them on sight! ;)
THE WAY WE FALL, for example, was technically inspired by a nightmare, but that nightmare was in turn inspired by reading a zombie novel. And my idea to have the virus be a "friendly flu" was partly in reaction to all the zombie stories I've seen, in which it always bothers me that zombies seem to have so easily infected most of the world despite acting so horribly any normal person would run away from them on sight! ;)
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