Comments on: Inspiration/Perspiration http://www.dystel.com/blog/2014/04/inspirationperspiration/ Mon, 26 Jun 2017 15:15:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.15 By: sharon http://www.dystel.com/blog/2014/04/inspirationperspiration/comment-page-1/#comment-37912 Thu, 17 Apr 2014 15:11:03 +0000 http://www.dystel.com/?p=10160#comment-37912 “What if” makes a great prompt! Along with, as I read somewhere recently, “and then?” (to badly paraphrase: nonfiction asks “and why?”; fiction asks “and then?”

]]> By: D. C. DaCosta http://www.dystel.com/blog/2014/04/inspirationperspiration/comment-page-1/#comment-37910 Wed, 16 Apr 2014 23:30:40 +0000 http://www.dystel.com/?p=10160#comment-37910 Inspiration comes from:
– overheard conversations (Never, ever use headphones in public — you’ll miss a lot!)
– stories told by friends, esp. older relatives
– newspapers, esp. the short blurbs that give only the barest outline of what happened
– the habit of asking “What if?” What if the accident on the train tracks was actually a murder? What if the missing man faked his death? What if the helpful art professor is really the leader of a human trafficking ring?

Possibilities are endless. Energy and time are not, alas.

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