Inspiration where you find it…

I’ve had a hard time recently coming up with an idea for a novel that I really feel passionate about.  If I have to jump in and recreate a “don’t look down draft“, then it has to be something that, at this point in the game, I’m fired up about, right? There’s plenty of time to lose my inspiration in the editing phase…

I’ve been stumped for a way to jump start the process and had been considering an artist date (not really something I can schedule at present), working through some courses, and doing loads of freewriting.  Then during a long drive on Sunday, I got the idea to combine some of the recent ideas I’ve had (time travel idea, dark immortal idea, woman looking for God idea). The idea started looking like a Piers Anthony book I read once, so I knew I was not quite on the right track but it did fire me up a bit.

Then last night we watched last year’s “Wolfman” with Benicio del Toro and Anthony Hopkins.  It is a seriously flawed film but the lighting set decoration and period costumes really set the tone of the film and made me forgive a whole lot of things.  In fact, it fired up something inside, because it’s a period I’m a bit fascinated with.

Then I went to bed, opened my notebook and with a pen I started writing.  I took my character from 2 of the above stories and a modern day scientist inside a 16th century castle in a massive, ornate bed several hundred years old (the movie’s influence)  and…

It was like magic in a bottle.  I didn’t even write a page, and i have no sense of where it’s going, but I for sure have a don’t look draft.  Even left it on a cliff hanger!

ok, now to write…