tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28436164.post115132828837378561..comments2024-03-22T18:03:13.028+07:00Comments on Chord Gitar: Seeds I Can BorrowYuki Rijkiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10334294289608982794noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28436164.post-1151504109868787792006-06-28T21:15:00.000+07:002006-06-28T21:15:00.000+07:00Great topic, Skylar and Kat!I'm not sure where my ...Great topic, Skylar and Kat!<BR/><BR/>I'm not sure where my ideas come from...I'm not sure it's one source. Like Kat, it could be dreams (and sometimes is). I tend to watch a lot of stuff from the Science channels or the History Channel or the Discovery Channel...In fact, I saw one show recently that perfectly described the parasitic life form in the novel I'm currently working on. <BR/><BR/>My only real problem is that the minute I get entranced in what I'm watching/listening to, someone in my house is sure to come in and start yammering at me, usually this is my husband. He'll be standing there talking about what a crappy deal a certain politician is offering us and I'll be waving my hand frantically to shut him up (g)<BR/><BR/>He *so* doesn't appreciate that (g)Lynda K. Scotthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02359454130425927874noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28436164.post-1151346991973166642006-06-27T01:36:00.000+07:002006-06-27T01:36:00.000+07:00Well, first of all let's agree to call the men of ...Well, first of all let's agree to call the men of fifty odd years, 'seasoned gentlemen' : )<BR/><BR/>I enjoyed that story because I don't think it's all that out of the norm. My hubby and I have conversations like that on a daily basis. Not that we're closet intellectuals or even have all our facts correct, but we love to debate things and compare historical events to those happening now. <BR/><BR/>My ideas come from a variety of sources from snippets in dreams to something I read in FATE magazine. Or heard on the news, or a documentary. I am a documentary junkie...I've actually Jonesed for them a time or two when I couldn't find one on television. <BR/><BR/>Sometimes conversations at work can give me good ideas...not necessarily for entire books, but for things that happen to characters I've already established. Backgrounds or weird happenings. I have one instance taken from a co-worker that will show up in my next novel. I'll tell you all about it when I've written it. <BR/><BR/>Sometimes I have no clue where my ideas come from, they just come to me. I've told people before that if I didn't write I'd probably be schizophrenic, because of all the people and places I have living in my head. I have to purge them somehow. <BR/><BR/>I find the older I get the more I don't listen to those around me, I just sort of tune them out...I'm usually staring off into space writing a scene in my head, or trying to work out a plot point. I get in trouble all the time at home because my husband tells me I never listen to him. Not true...I do listen, he just doesn't give me enough time to come out of my thought fog before he starts talking. There's about a 10 second lag time between the time he says 'Hey, Kat' and the time my brain is actually ready to receive any information he's giving me. You'd think he'd know this by now. By the time my brain actually catches up, he's halfway done with whatever he's saying and gets mad when I ask him, 'What?' - So, as you see...I already have enough information stuffed into my brain to stuff much more...and yet...I always seem to find new ideas cropping up from some unnamed source. My idea books must number in the hundreds of entries. If I never got another new idea from this day forward, I would still have enough ideas to write for the rest of my life. I should probably start an idea farm...that way people can buy the sprouts of my thoughts...take them home and replant them and see what grows. <BR/><BR/>-KatKathleen Scott/MK Mancoshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14872072913152568070noreply@blogger.com