LR and I discussed collaborating on a book in October of 2010. By late October, we had a plan…of sorts. We decided on a genre – a cozy mystery and gave ourselves homework. We would each come up with 3-5 possible premises for the book. We would then meet again and discuss.
We decided our mystery would have two main characters, either sisters, friends, relatives of some sort, or even no relation at all. The only “rule” we thought is that they should be opposites.
The “coming up with ideas” was actually quite easy. I’ve always had my head filled with random concepts. After we met, I went home and let the thoughts run wild…if I could write any book, what would it be?
We discussed each of our premises, giving thought to plausibility, ease of execution (pun firmly intended), possible research necessary to complete and if it was something we could live with for a year or two…or even more. We selected one of LR’s ideas…I was only mildly disappointed.
We then came up with “Villains and Victims”, using the same concept…come up with 3-5 possible villains and their victims. We chose our victim and then our villain…of course, it could have been the other way around, villain first and then the victim, but a year has passed and frankly, I’ve forgotten.
We had our genre, our premise, victim and villain. We were all set to begin.
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