Inspiration

The inspiration behind stories, like a recipe, is often a combination of different sources: pictures, experiences and even conversations.

My story, Good Food Budgie, was loosely based on two of my mother-in-law’s budgies. One that was too terrified to leave the cage, but would often aggressively peck at his reflection in his mirror as if he was picking a fight with an intruder, and another loved flying around, dropping poos and small plastic ornaments on you as he did so. The aboriginal origins of the word budgie came from a small information plaque on a budgie enclosure in a Girvan public park.

Black Wings Are In was inspired by a photograph by Jerzy Górecki at Pixel Images posted by a writer friend, and having just finished reading the YA novel, Out Of The Blue by Sophie Cameron, where angels mysteriously start falling to earth.

Even going for a short walk in the countryside helped me to decide what to write in this blog.

So, look around you, listen, reach out, taste and smell. You never know where it will take you and your story.

Photo by Danielle MacInnes on Unsplash