a rich source of inspiration
12th July 2016 | for Creatives | reading, creative process, novel writing, writing, inspiration/the muse, storytelling, ideas, Jeff Somers |
"What great writers do is practice the art of looking for the Undiscovered Countries inside every story—because every book ever written is just a torch being carried into an incredibly deep, incredibly dark cavern of the imagination, illuminating only a small portion of the potential ideas it contains. What remains hidden in the shadows is a rich source of inspiration for your own work—if you know how to mine it."
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