This is my first post on my first Blog on my new website. I know you'll all be patient with a newby! I want to write about writing as we go along and your comments or questions will help direct me. One question I get quite often is, "Where do you get ideas for a book?" A great question and a good place to start.
Ideas for books come from everywhere. Now that is not a very deep answer--but it is true. Often I will begin with the germ of an idea ... kind of a what if this happened to ... My first book, Code Name: ORION'S EYE, began as a writing project for my studies with the Long Ridge Writers Group. Taking the WWII event of the sinking of the troopship SS Cape San Juan I thought about what if the Nazis were trying to steal the secret radar equipment she carried? Then created some characters from my own past life ... and pretty soon a story began to grow.
So far I haven't answered your question in any depth. But we're just beginning. If you are a newby writer, or want to be one, post something for me to talk about that will help you.
That's it for this first venture into blogdom.
Ideas for books come from everywhere. Now that is not a very deep answer--but it is true. Often I will begin with the germ of an idea ... kind of a what if this happened to ... My first book, Code Name: ORION'S EYE, began as a writing project for my studies with the Long Ridge Writers Group. Taking the WWII event of the sinking of the troopship SS Cape San Juan I thought about what if the Nazis were trying to steal the secret radar equipment she carried? Then created some characters from my own past life ... and pretty soon a story began to grow.
So far I haven't answered your question in any depth. But we're just beginning. If you are a newby writer, or want to be one, post something for me to talk about that will help you.
That's it for this first venture into blogdom.
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