Inspire Me!

Writing is mostly a solitary effort. You look at upcoming deadlines, you think about ideas and characters you already have in mind, you might even do word wars--but in the end, what's really happening is between your brain and the empty computer screen, taking that nothingness like a lump of clay and shaping something out of it. Hopefully something riveting and thought provoking and entertaining, or at least entertaining.

But I like having company along the way. So I periodically invite my friends, readers, and fans to send me prompts--topics, props, characters, questions, and the like. In return, if one of your prompts inspires a story, I'll give you a private peek at the first draft.

Right now, I'm thinking of music and strong women. It's a long time since I did some sword and sorcery; I think that's because I read so much of it for a while; something to inspire me to do something different with that genre would be cool too. Or maybe something different with fairy tales.

And in advance, thanks for wandering the still-empty landscape of stories-yet-to-be-written with me!

Inspire Me!

Writing is mostly a solitary effort. You look at upcoming deadlines, you think about ideas and characters you already have in mind, you might even do word wars--but in the end, what's really happening is between your brain and the empty computer screen, taking that nothingness like a lump of clay and shaping something out of it. Hopefully something riveting and thought provoking and entertaining, or at least entertaining.

But I like having company along the way. So I periodically invite my friends, readers, and fans to send me prompts--topics, props, characters, questions, and the like. In return, if one of your prompts inspires a story, I'll give you a private peek at the first draft.

Right now, I'm thinking of music and strong women. It's a long time since I did some sword and sorcery; I think that's because I read so much of it for a while; something to inspire me to do something different with that genre would be cool too. Or maybe something different with fairy tales.

And in advance, thanks for wandering the still-empty landscape of stories-yet-to-be-written with me!