Whovian Writer Wolverine

lifeonvega asked: Why are you so good at coming up with concepts for full-length novels?

Oh, man! Haha! I wish I wasn’t! 

I think it’s because I really like complex plotlines featuring numerous characters. I’ve always been one to dream big, never to start small, so almost everything I ever wrote, even when I was little, was intended to be part of some larger work.

The fact of the matter was, I wasn’t ready for that. I did some writing camps in middle school where I had to write short-stories and/or prompts and those greatly helped develop my writing, and I hung out writing short stories about tween girls for a while. 

So, naturally, when I got to high school, the novel ideas began again. I managed to stay completely loyal to only one idea until college, when I (sadly) happened to get an idea that was so promising I had to split my allegiance a bit. 

The ideas themselves? They just come to me. High and Simple Causes is a story about a political conflict similar in vein to the Cold War that began all because I wrote a short piece in which I challenged myself to make sense of the phrase “bloody toaster.” Aliens/basketball came about when I one day pictured our super-tough captain, Zack Novak, helping to fight off an alien invasion. 

The basic answer, though is, I don’t like going small. The bigger the better. It’s the American way. ;)