Don’t plot and Drive
I’m out of town and almost forgot to post, so this is a short one!
So everyone always asks that question, “Where do you get the inspiration for your books.” And I always wish I had some fabulous answer. But the truth is… I don’t. Not at all. My inspiration comes from everyday life. From random things.
And inspiration always hits when I really don’t want it to. When I’m only halfway through another book. I start thinking…oooh look at Sebastian, the secondary character in the book. He totally needs his own books. He can have this happen, and that happen, and he can meet this type of heroine.
It can get a bit annoying. To the point where I’m totally plotting the other book while writing the first one. Which can be a little bit crazy, because usually I write one book at a time. But sometimes, I just can’t help it. It comes out.
And here’s the worst part, the part where I say the title of this post is completely relevant. Don’t plot and drive. For real. I should not do it. And I wonder if I’m alone here. I will start plotting, and almost every other thought leaves my head. Where I can have driven twenty miles and not even realized it. I zone out when I plot. I going into this deep recess of my brain and don’t come out, until someone gets in my face and yells, “You’re about to hit that tree.” Or “Did you just hear a word I said?”
So know you tell me… where do you get your ideas (ha! I get to ask now! 
) and do plots hit you at the most random times?
July 2nd, 2007 at 8:54 am
Driving is a good time for me too, but I tend to pull over and scribble notes to myself if it gets too intense. My entire YA novel came to me on the side of the road, but you can bet the Roo was not pleased about stopping for a good fifteen minutes. Three year old’s man…
hugs,
anna j evans
July 2nd, 2007 at 10:39 am
That’s so cool, Anna. Didn’t I just hear something about you getting an agent for that book?
You rock!! And yes, 3 year olds, wince.
July 2nd, 2007 at 12:41 pm
In the shower. I always work through plots in the shower.
Also, walking. 
July 2nd, 2007 at 2:06 pm
I used to write dialogue while I drove! And laugh!!!!! And people would look at me like I was nuts….wait….
July 3rd, 2007 at 1:02 am
Shower and driving - not at the same time of course. I’ve come up with some good stuff both in the shower and driving. Any distance for me to drive is long so I get lots of time to think.
Also right before I go to bed but that’s never good cos I can never remember the next day. I need a voice recorder or something…
July 3rd, 2007 at 3:00 pm
Shower and bed…..almost always when I’m supposed to be working on something else.
Damn Muse!
July 5th, 2007 at 1:20 pm
Plot points come to me when I am almost asleep or in dreams.
and most of my inspiration comes from a combination of everyday life, fantasy and history books. lol.
Grin.
Hugs,
Lacy.
July 5th, 2007 at 2:34 pm
My inspiration is much the same.
Except for my short pieces of smut. Those usually come from flirting with women I know on various bulletin boards I hang at.
Oh! And sometimes from reading other people’s stories. I’ll get a ‘What if?’ question in my mind and filling in the answer gives me the story.
http://www.thebluedotgallery.com/GalleryDetail.asp?ID=151
So I guess my inspirations come from just about everywhere.