I've gotten hit by the inspiration hammer in the past 24 hours. Twice! It's sort of uncool because I need to finish other projects first *rolls eyes* but...oh well
I like to keep abreast of things that are happening in the world and I came across THIS really neat article in Der Spiegel.
First of all, the picture got me. SO COOL. Honestly, its a bit like the Den where the fox clan lives in the story I'm working on, only without all the wetland trees. Then, as I began reading the article my story sensor went off. I mean it really is a story waiting to happen! Imagine a land where you have the marsh people and the desert people possibly involved in some sort of war, or are ancient enemies and there is a constant tension back and forth across the border. Their cultures are so remarkably different that, say, someone one person from one culture is introduced into the other---as perhaps a slave or something. Maybe the marsh people have some bad blood (in truth, many believe the Marsh Arabs are actually of Summarian descent...how cool). Talk about a killer setting.
The other source of inspiration came from HERE.
I can just imagine doing a story about a little girl living in such a big mansion house, and meeting another little girl in her garden--perhaps a fairy or a girl from another time or place. Or having a story where you have a character living alone in a house like that and whatever he/she is doing is having some sort of effect on characters in another part of the story. Awesome!
Did anything inspire you today?
LOL,please don't write the first inspiration as a long novel...that's a lot of what is going to be in the new book I'm working on and yours would be so much better than mine, ha ha ha. Just kidding :) I can share plot themes I guess! :P And I'm only on the second chapter and it's already falling apart on me. I'd love to see you write both of these. You always impress me with your random inspirations!
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