Going Beyond Fan Fic – Making Your Favorite Characters Your Own
“Where do you get your ideas?” This is one of the questions that authors dread because it comes up so frequently, pretty much every time they take questions at signings or other events. I went to an event with Jane Yolen once where she addressed this issue first thing before opening up the discussion to questions from the audience (though someone who I guess hadn’t been listening still asked anyway). But when a stranger asked me this recently after hearing me read my writing,