Welcome back for another ride at the YA Indie Carnival. This week’s topic is a question most writers get asked and I think one of the easiest/toughest to answer. Of course inspiration lies everywhere. But, specific things inspire my stories. Everyday there’s something new. As I look back, here are my top 5:
1. Anything I find outrageous [my random encounter with a narcoleptic ball scratcher]
2. Anything that makes me laugh [the txt message you should never send your husband]
3. The unexpected here and here [the one where I end up in a movie directed by Robert Redford, and Meryl Streep takes her mark by my desk all day at work]
4. My family
5. My friends
Our own Pretzel Woman, Rachel Cole’s Orphans of Lethe just came out in a horror anthology called What Fears Become more info HERE. Congratulations Rachel!
What inspires the Indies who inspire me most? Check ’em out!
The Fuji Mermaid Danny Snell’s Refracted Light Reviews
Leopard Girl Patti Larsen Author of The Ghost Boy of MacKenzie House, The Hunted Series and the Hayle Coven Novels.
Fire Breather Courtney Cole Author of Every Last Kiss, Fated, Princess, and Guardian. Also a contributing author in The Glassheart Chronicles.
The Magician Wren Emerson Author of I Wish and a contributing author in The Glassheart Chronicles.
Strong Woman Nichole A. Williams Author of Eternal Eden, and the upcoming Fallen Eden. She is also participating in the Glassheart Chronicles.
Champion Sword Swallower Fisher Amelie Author of The Understorey, as well as a contributing author in The Glassheart Chronicles.
Snake Charmer Amy Maurer Jones Author of The Soul Quest Trilogy as well as a contributing author in The Glassheart Chronicles.
Pretzel Woman Rachel Coles. Geek Mom. Book Reviewer Author of Diary of a Duct Tape Zombie, Whistles, Beergarden, Plagues, Bees of St. John, and Mushrooms.
The Giant T. R. Graves T.R. Graves: Author of Warriors of the Cross.
Woman With A Song That Hypnotizes Cyndi Tefft Author of Between
Jungle Woman P.J. Hoover Author of Solstice, The Emerald Tablet, The Navel of the World, The Necropolis.
Shape Shifter Alicia McCalla Author of the upcoming science-fiction novel Breaking Free
Tarot Card Reader Heather Cashman Author of Perception
Hi, Laura. Thanks for sharing. Looking forward to checking out all the links! 🙂
LOL plunger texts. Movie stardom. Love it!
I love your list of inspirations, the narcoleptic ball scratcher, texts that you shouldn’t send your husband. You should check out http://www.damnyouautocorrect.com for that one. It’s a scream. Thanks for the mention!
Heather: Thanks for stopping by!
Patti: YUP! My Hollywood Debut was one crazy day at work…everyone kept asking me if I was REAL? I can’t tell you what the subway/train ride home was like…..Me to myself: Am I real? Me to myself: Gee, I don’t know? The thoughts I had on my way home from work were sort of like a philosophy term paper:) hee-hee
Rachel: CONGRATS again! So excited for you:) OMG! That site cracks me up! I love it. And yeah, my kids crack up when I send txts, because I usually don’t have my glasses on and think I can txt anyway, and when I actually do enter the txt in right, the dang auto-correct provides us with lots of laughs:)
Thank you for the mental picture of the narcoleptic man. I won’t easily forget it (unfortunately). Thanks for sharing.
LOL! Well, I don’t know what you really call that. Inspiration seems to be too grand a word for the Narcoleptic ball-scratcher. But he did help me see a part of the world I wouldn’t have normally seen. And so he added to my writer’s toolbox that day and for that, I’m actually horrifyingly grateful to the guy:)
Laura, you’re a hoot! Great inspirations! ‘Ain’t’ life grand….
Amy:) Glad you got a laugh! And yeah, what a ball!!!
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