Where do ideas come from?

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People ask me where I get the ideas for my stories. Rekindled Love started when I read about an arsonist and how he began setting fires after his personal life started to go up in flames. Then I did research about a sketch artist. I found it interesting how she was able to interpret what people said and what they didn’t say to come up with a drawing. My husband was a volunteer firefighter for seven years and that gave me lots of good insight to the technical side of the story. My characters are composts of people I know with additional characteristics thrown in which fit the story. When I’m in a public place I listen to what people say and save their comments to use in future stores. Savannah the little girl who’s in all three of the Forest Ridge Series was based on my daughter, Jennifer. When she was a toddler, Jennifer had a special blanket which she called her ‘new blanket’. My daughter packed that blanket everywhere she went. Whenever it was raining, living in Oregon that’s most of the time, Jennifer insisted we place the blanket under our coats so the blanket wouldn’t get wet. When I worked on Rekindled Love, Jennifer and her new blanket fit perfectly with the story. I now have a special notebook where I write down sentence or stories I’ve heard which are waiting to be written into a book. Rekindled Love is free on Amazon for 5 days starting on June 1st.