I'm always asked where my ideas come from. I can't very well say I don't know. Well, I can, but that would make me sound disinterested and unprepared.
I suppose ideas are everywhere. The idea of my first release with Champagne Books, Man Of Her Dremas, came from an online dating commercial. I was in the kitchen, doing dishes, half asleep, when a "what if?" popped into my head when the TV in the next room aired the dating commercial. What if the hero's nosey sister answers a mail order bride ad for him without his knowledge? The rest just fell into an entire novel.
Stranger In His Bed, my August 2009 release with Champagne, came from all the things I'd been hearing about what publishers are looking for. "Give us 'out of the box'," they cried. Well, Angus French, hero of the story, couldn't get more out of the box, I don't believe. (And you'll just have to read it to find out why. *grin*) And the rest of the book was inspired by fairytales I'd read and heard as a kid.
Mythology, history, both local and internationally, also fuel my ideas, as do museums, movies, and of course reading. Now that I think about it, I get a lot of ideas from people watching too. Mannerisms, facial expressions. They all go into my boks. I also listen to strangers' conversations. Shameless but true. Writing has made me terribly nosey.
So I guess ideas are everywhere and in everything. All you havet o do is look close enough.
Writers out there, where do you get your ideas?
~ Nancy
http://www.nancyhenderson.blogspot.com
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