#How do you come up with ideas?
Ideas, Ideas, Ideas
What sparks your Ideas for your books?
Ideas:
Inspiration for the plot of books come in so many ways. There is probably not just one constant theme for the primary base of your story.
Travel: Visiting new places, seeing the landmarks of other countries can be the catalyst that prompts a story.
Watching People: If you sit in a mall and watch the interactions of the crowds, many stories can be derived from this.
Other stores: Reading, reading and more reading can ignite a story line and from that one thought an entire story can grow in momentum.
Secondary Characters: Have you ever written a story and found yourself and your readers so intrigues with a certain character they demand a voice? Secondary characters can initiate another book.
How do you come up with ideas?
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Ripped from her family at the top of Infinity Cliff, Kimi McKenna finds herself thrust somewhere into the future. Dark elements threaten to destroy the earth unless Kimi can work together with the white witch to stop the destruction. Confused by her mate’s role in the conspiracy, she refuses to acknowledge the connection. But amidst raging fire and attacks on the people she is coming to hold dear, she allows Maska O’keefe into her heart.
Maska O’keefe has loved the beautiful shapeshifter for years. Unable to save her life years ago, he vows to watch over her as he is given a second chance to convince her that even though he is a witch and not a shifter, they are indeed soul mates. Kimi’s divided loyalties between her family and the cause she is now a part of will determine their relationship. Only the part she plays as the messiah can bring this to a conclusion in the final battle.
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Regarding secondary characters, I find that they can become more important than the original primary characters as a book or series develops. In my writing, my heroine Adeliza is the most important character in the first book in which she features. In the second book, she becomes less prominent as the story goes on. In the third book, she still has a voice but she is a minor character albeit one whose actions change the direction of the story at two different points in the book.
I think it is natural that as a plot develops, the focus on particular characters shift. In my novels, I focus on where the action is and it would not be appropriate for my plot to always have the same person take centre stage. For the same reason, very minor characters in my first book become very important in the second and third books.
My second novel, Moon in Mazatlán, was written because my editor was very smitten with a secondary character in my first book and wanted to see him have his own story.
As far as getting ideas, I have to stop them from overwhelming my brain. Even if I wrote twenty hours a day, seven days a week, I wouldn’t be able to finish all the story ideas I have waiting to be told. [And I wouldn’t be able to edit, either!]
I have led a pretty adventurous life and been present in the midst of a lot of changes so my inspiration, though it sounds terribly egotistical, is my own life. Even my “fantasy” books are taken from aspects of my own life.
My books are available in electronic or paperback from Amazon.com under my name, G. Lloyd Helm, or, for autographed copies from mouseprint@earthlink.net Incidentally my book WORLD WITHOUT END is available free to members of Kindle Unlimited.
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