NOIR-vember: THE CREATIVE PROCESS

 

Authors get their ideas everywhere. 

Newspapers, TV, movies, other books, overheard conversations, dreams, nightmares, people we've met, loved, hated, been married to. 

And sometimes we have no idea how we got an idea!

As I posted chapters of my SAME AS IT NEVER WAS on this blog, 

I could hear the ghost of Harlan Ellison screaming into my ear: 

Hear Neil Gaiman's response:

I was browsing for books to read for research on my sequel to 

SAME AS IT NEVER WAS: OVER THE RIVER AND THROUGH THE WORLDS ...

And an AH, HA! moment:

Occurred to me!

A whole new section of my fantasy came to me, and it seemed to flow right out of the end of my book.

People who do not read this post will think this series of events had been in my mind from the very start.

Where do your ideas come from, my friends?