Tenners Top Ten List

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Top Ten Sources of Author Inspiration

By Amy Brecount White

Anyone who claims to be an author is always in search of inspiration - that tiny spark of imagination and ingenuity that makes your book unique and irresistible. But where do we writers find inspiration? I have done a totally unscientific survey gleaned from my own meandering attempts and

Comments

[ggmccall]

Love it! Especially the bodies of water and Life's Motifs...I believe in those...! Great post.

[amybre_white]

Thanks!! Hoping to go back to the ocean one more time this season ....

[cynjay]

Great post - but you left off my most important one. The shower (although it does bounce off of #2). Some of my best ideas occur between rinse and repeat.

[amybre_white]

Ack! the shower! How could I leave it out?! :-)

[leah_cypess]

I love that chocolate is #1. Also curious about what pissed you off that made its way into String Theories!

[amybre_white]

Ahh...can't give that away, but you don't find out about it until halfway through. It will piss you off too, though, I'm sure.

[blythe_woolston]

My kids. Not in a sentimental way--a mental way. They are all such zig-zaggy thinkers I end up in some very interesting places playing brain-tag with them.

I have three, and they are so wildly different from each other it always reminds me that there is no one way to respond to a situation.

[amybre_white]

Yes! I have three also -- I knew we had tons in common -- and they are very different and inspiring.

[dawn_metcalf]

Writers are a type of parasite that live on chocolate. There is something gloriously poetic about that. ;-)

[amybre_white]

LOL, Dawn! Love that.