STORY IDEA TAKES SHAPE

Where do ideas for fiction stories come from? Every author will have a different method of plucking something out of the ether.
    For me, there's no one single technique. Days can be spent tortuously trying to come up with a gripping plot and characters, to the extent my wife Jenny sometimes says to me 'you're not listening are you'? To which my mind zips back to everyday matters with the expected apology to her.
  There are times when out of the blue, a place visited, or an incident sparks the imagination. You never quite know from where it will come. My latest paranormal thriller idea came from a dream that has recurred occasionally. A situation where I've been entirely lost in a place I don't recognise, and can't find a way out. It isn't one of those strange things happen, and then you wake up and find it's all a dream stories. That's a hackneyed old plot, and one to be totally avoided. It's more mysterious, and has what I think is good twist at the end.
   Currently I'm around quarter way through writing it, and as yet haven't thought of a title. Sometimes that springs out at you as you write the narrative. Just slogging on with it for now.

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