That year the snow was unusually heavy. We got about a foot and a half. My son had an absolute blast! I took him and my nephew on a trek in the woods, where we had a picnic under the branches of a huge pine tree that was so weighed down with snow that it completely concealed us.
That day inspired one of the most important scenes in my novel. I don't want to spoil it by telling, but the secret space beneath that huge pine's branches was the perfect setting for that particular scene. I was reminded of it today, because I'm listening to Enya's "And Winter Came" CD while doing housework.
So, what odd things inspired brilliant ideas for your book?
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I was looking on amazon for fairy books for my sister's boyfriend's daughter and came across one called Lady Cottington's Pressed Fairy Book. I wondered, why would a person press a fairy? Would they catch them and press them like a flower for a collection?
What would a pressed fairy be like? Fruit leather?
Then I wondered if an evil person caught and pressed fairies, and they did become like fruit leather, that evil person may very likely eat those fairies. And why would that evil person want to do that?
After pondering all this, I came up with a barebones plot for a novel. And Fairyeater was born.
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