IDEAS

 IDEAS

'Where do you get your ideas from?' is a question that's nigh on impossible to answer.

Sometimes they appear out of nowhere, like a lightning flash from a clear sky. Or some incident triggers a 'what if?' thought that niggles and grows until it demands to be written.

That's just the start, of course. What follow are weeks, months, sometimes years of thinking and writing. Then editing, deleting and re-writing through multiple drafts before finally I'm certain I can do no more.

Publish - and be damned by the typos I'd read and missed a hundred times!

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Thanks to Dale Rogerson for the photo prompt, and to Rochelle for hosting Friday Ficitoneers. 

The above is definitely not fiction! 

I have seven novels and two books of poetry in print, all of which had to go through the same tortous process before hitting Amazon. You will find them there - if you can navigate past the other writers called Liz Young.

And I am within inches of the end of the first draft of novel #8, provisionally titled 'The Two Wives of Steven Denham' - watch this space!