Wintersong: The Origin Story
A chronicle of inspiration
Originally published on my old blog on January 27, 2016.
Every book has a beginning. This is Wintersong’s.
Imagine that said in Movie Trailer Guy’s voice.
To be honest, Wintersong’s origin story is neither portentous, significant, beautiful, or moving. I’m no Stephanie Meyer; I can’t claim that an idea or a scene came to me fully formed in a dream. I’m no J. K. Rowling with a Cinderella story of rags to riches, scribbling out the beginning of Harry Potter on napkins. My story looks like this:
In November 2013, I decided to write 50 Shades of Labyrinth for NaNoWriMo. The rest is history.