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Blog Tour / Guest Post – ‘My Ideas’ by Maddie Please author of A Year Of New Adventures

Posted February 22, 2018 by Charlotte in Blog Tour, Guest Post / 0 Comments
Blog Tour / Guest Post – ‘My Ideas’ by Maddie Please author of A Year Of New Adventures

Today I’m super exciting to welcome to the blog, Maddie Please, author of A Year of New Adventures with a post about her ideas!! My ideas It’s the usual question that most writers are asked. Where do you get your ideas? Where do I get mine? The answer is there are ideas everywhere. In newspapers, on social media, in everyday life, gossip heard on the bus or at work. My debut, The Summer of Second Chances came from a writing retreat in Cornwall when we were enjoying an excellent plotting workshop with Chris Manby. In a couple of hours the whole thing was plotted out, the hive mind of the group provided the names for my main characters and a working title and the structure of the plotting grid meant that I knew for the first time where events needed to take place in order to move the story forward. That didn’t mean the plot couldn’t change, it just gave a structure that kept me writing. My second book A Year of New Adventures was the result of a ‘what […]