After nearly two dozen suspense novels, does it get easier or harder to come up with original ideas?
I don’t usually have trouble coming up with ideas, and I think that’s because my books are basically character driven. I come up with characters, and they find themselves in a variety of dangerous situations just because of who they are. I find that if I sit down and start writing as these characters, their backgrounds, personalities, and needs and desires take the story to places I never would have imagined if I had just sat down at my computer and started thinking, “Oh, gosh, I need an idea.
