Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Keep your eyes open

Okay. If you saw this before, it somehow got out of sync and reverted to an incomplete version.

I deleted and started over.

I remember reading in Steven King's On Writing that story ideas come from everywhere and that we need to watch for them.

Here's my extension of that: Watch for details to add to your existing story. At dinner a few nights ago my future daughter-in-law broke open her fortune cookie: "You will learn the truth in time."

My current WIP has a MC who has Chinese food in Chapter 1. The book is a ghost mystery centering around a grandfather clock. Hmmm ....... are fortunes copyrighted???

Jim D

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

That sounds like opportunity knocking to me! And it sounds a lot like "tick tock, tick tock."

What a great way to work in some foreshadowing! Just ambiguous enough not to raise eyebrows, but, based on what you're saying, thematically perfect.

I love it when that happens.

PJ Hoover said...

I don't think so! You can go online and find tons of sayings!

Carrie Harris said...

Fabulous fortune. It certainly piques my interest!

Vivian Mahoney said...

That is perfect fortune for your manuscript!