There’s a question authors get asked all the time: I’m asked this question at least three times a week. Where do you get your ideas? And I always feel like there should be a much neater answer than the one I actually have/give. Maybe a secret room somewhere. A particularly magical notebook. A very organized…
Sometimes people ask where a story begins. Was it a character? A single line? A plot twist? For me… more often than not it’s a song. The more I think about it, the more that makes perfect sense. Long before I became an author, I was a theater girl. I grew up loving Broadway soundtracks,…
Music has always been part of my writing process. Sometimes a song helps me find a character. Sometimes it helps me understand a scene. And sometimes it’s simply background noise while I stare at a blinking cursor and try to convince my characters to cooperate. Lately my playlists have been a mixture of old favorites…