Inspiration is that Idea moment. You wake up, like VickiPettersson did, from a dream about a woman killing a man with the heel of a
stiletto, and after you muse "what the ?" you decide to sit down and
write the scene from your dream. And from it, and Imagination, you Invent a kick-ass,
emotionally damaged heroine who is less human, and more important to humanity,
than she knows, and from there you secure a publishing contract that results in
a six-book series.
Or, if you're Diana Gabaldon, you watch a Dr. Who episode
featuring an attractive young man in a kilt. You like men in kilts. You decide
to Invent one, and because men in kilts are commonly Scottish, and kilts were
more common day-wear a few centuries ago, you Imagine an 18th-century
hero in a kilt, and well, from there, go on to become one of America's
most-beloved best-selling authors whose eighth book in the Outlander series
will be out later this year.
And if you're me, you find your Inspiration in your mother's
story, a young, unmarried woman exiled by her mother to a Home for Unwed
Mothers and forced to give her firstborn up for adoption, only you re-Imagine
the outcome, Invent a character with the voice and courage that your mother did
not discover until she was much, much older, and write the fairy-tale ending
your mother deserved.
D.
Imagination has always
had powers of resurrection that no science can match. ~Ingrid Bengis
3 comments:
What a lovely tribute to your mother! :)
What a lovely post! (Another Diana Gabaldon fan here, too! :) )
Thank you, Lara. *beam*
And thank you, Juli!
Diana is fabulous. I love her books!
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