Writers get asked this question a lot: Where do you get your
ideas?
Here's one example of an idea that is haunting me -- and will
definitely inspire a book.
I'll watch about anything with Clive Owen in it, and so the other
day I was scrolling through the television guide and found Last Knights
on. I'd seen it before and I knew how it ended. (This is an old
movie so I think I can spoil it for you without repercussion. Raiden probably
dies at the end in a sacrifice move to save the other knights--though they do
try and make you think hmmm, maybe he decided to fight after all, but
no.)
But hey, it's Clive and there wasn't anything else on. Plus
he inspired a knight in my current series, so I thought, hey! Background
inspiration! I'm writing away on my current book, trying to hit the
NaNoWriMo total while watching bits and pieces of the movie in the
background. Again, I've seen it before, so I know about the big siege and
Raiden's "fall from grace" which is all part of the secret plot.
But then, whammo, a scene got right back in my face. And I wanted
MORE. I knew immediately I had a story.
Since he's playing a drunk who has totally lost his honor, he does
nothing to save his lord's daughter, even though she cries and pleads with him
for help. That scene is pretty wrenching. She's young and pretty and you're
pretty sure bad bad things are going to happen to her. But he can't do
anything. YET. After the big siege and he's won, he goes stomping
down into the depths of hell to drag her back out to safety, and there's this
killer scene....
All the surviving knights who served her father go down on one
knee before her, including Raiden. "Your father's honor (and yours) is
restored."
GAH. I love that scene so much. Only I want more about
the daughter and these loyal knights who did the impossible, not just to redeem
her father's honor, but to save her. To honor her.
Oh, yeah. I want that book.
If you want to see him in a crazy over-the-top love scene be sure to check out Shoot 'Em Up!
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