Yesterday I wrote about how I went to Salem, Massachusetts, to gain inspiration for the start of NaNoWriMo next week. That trip didn’t inspire any fictional stories, but it did inspire a non-fiction article.
What did inspire a creative spark for a story came from a movie I wasn’t in the mood to see.
My daughter begged, pleaded and hounded me into watching Dawn of the Dead (2004) with her last night. She knew I had seen George Romero’s original version from 1978 as a kid, and she wanted me to draw a comparison between the two to see which was better.
Since I’m no longer into “those type” of movies, I approached it with some trepidation. What happened is that I sat there in rapt attention and thoroughly enjoyed it. It wasn’t that it was that great of a film, but while watching it I played out a bunch of “What if” scenarios in my mind and then my own version of a ‘living dead’ story popped, fully formed, into my head.
Since I already have an outline for an Action/Adventure novel with a working title ready to go on November 1st, I’m not sure if I should stay with what I have, or make the switch to a Horror story. What to do…
BTW: I still like the original Dawn of the Dead better.
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