Author R.A. Gasparac

I know I have mentioned it before, but its always good to revisit things of this nature. Inspiration strikes writers when we weren’t expecting it, much like falling in love. I was tired, cranky, and ready to get home after a bad day working for a Hobby retail store. I was mentally checked out the entire drive home late at night. For some reason I chose to drive the back roads home instead of the easy and quick highway routes.

It was pitch black as I carefully worked my car through the twist, turns, drops, and up hills. The headlights set on bright, I immersed myself into the scenery when it happened. The branches along the tree line started to cast Erie shadows like shadow people stalking my car, ready to inflict mayhem around the next turn when my writers brain when into overdrive.

Like expanding a ZIP file on a computer, my brain began to feverishly world build along the storyline of a secret society which seeks out and maintains order against the shadow people. Granted the story has changed dramatically since that moment, but I remember how that idea rooted itself into my psyche with me helpless to stop it.

This is where I understand J.K Rowling in an interview where she first received inspiration for the Harry Potter Series, and the same intensity with which the story took her.

What is your story, and how did it give you this moment too? What was the moment you knew you had to write it?