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…
There are stories I’m writing. There are stories I’m planning to write. And then there are the stories quietly living in the back of my brain, taking up space and apparently making themselves comfortable until I finally pay attention to them. Those might be my favorite kind. Because for me, a story rarely begins when…
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,…