January Author Spotlight - Amanda Bouchet Interview Part 1
AMANDA BOUCHET INTERVIEW PART 1 Hi Amanda!! Thank you so much for doing this! You always write creative, magical stories that always have me in awe. Where do you get your ideas from? Thank you for inviting me! I’m mostly a “fly by the seat of my pants” writer so ideas come to me as I write. I usually start out a book with only the beginning scene in my head and then build from there with whatever comes naturally to move the characters and the plot forward. For the Kingmaker Chronicles, the magic and fantasy world took shape from the first scene of the first book ( A Promise of Fire ), but then I expanded on it to encompass much more than just one person and one place. As for where I get my ideas, it definitely takes some brainstorming and writing down and keeping notes—and seeing what works and sometimes discovering what doesn’t work after writing a scene. It would be fun and maybe easier if everything just magically came to me or filled my hea...