Stork Deliveries, Idea Wells and Other Myths
by YvonneEve
19 May 2009
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Where do you get ideas for your books?
Gee, let me think…
- From the Ideas Well.
- The stork brought it.
- I found it in the cabbage patch.
- I went up the mountain, shaved its fur….
You get the drift. Myths and urban legends aside, there is nothing magical about book ideas. They all start with…
The Big Bang
… the what-if question.
- What if the world were flat and carried by four elephants on the back of a gigantic turtle?
- What if a plane crashed on a tropical island with polar bears and healing properties?
- What if a body tattoo were actually an elaborate escape plan out of prison?
- What if love were a banned disease?
OK, I made up that last one. I was thinking about how women usually seem to fall in love after having sex, and about how condoms only protected us from sexually transmitted diseases, not from unwanted emotions.
And I thought… what if somebody invented a condom that protected us from falling in love?
Safe Sex Incorporated
That’s how “Safe Sex Incorporated” by Eve Summers (Red Rose Publishing 2009) was born.
Storks, maybe I need to look to the woodpile for my blog topic this week. It isn’t only story plots you need idea’s for. Here it is Tuesday and I’m not sure what I’m going to blog on for Friday.
I went in and read the Safe Sex Incorporated excerpt. It sounds like a really good story.
Nice post for morning coffee, I loved it.
Lavada
Yvonne/Eve, I had to take the scissors away from my Muse and lock her away because she was reading this over my shoulder. Then she escaped and I had to chase her down before I could finally get back here to comment.
“What if?” This phrase is the bane of writers everywhere! Especially when it crops up in the middle of a completely separate project and your Muse throws a temper trantrum because it wants to work on the new shiny.
Thanks for the peek into your process!
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