August 27th, 2010 at 11:45am
Okay, well I'm going to go with the way I [i]think[/i] you mean. Let me know if I get it wrong though ;)
Basically I was waiting for my parents in the supermarket carpark with my iPod, listened to 'Demons' by Avenged Sevenfold (I don't know if you've heard that song but the lyrics gave me the idea) and I decided that December had to have done it. There had to be some real psychological twist. So I knew I wanted a double personality or something and the whole 'twin' thing went from there. I actually had a whole bunch of ideas planned from just the dead twin thing. Like the 'evil twin, good twin' thing for example but I thought that was really pushing it, so I made December the one with the issue. Then I did some researching online before writing the final chapter and there it was. It's been a very long process, over months developing the Winter idea. A lot of my 'twists' in the plot are spontaneous thoughts that have just grown and grown. Where they come from exactly, I don't know but they do.
Is that what you're looking for?
I'm going to be starting two new stories soon actually. Well, one is going to be the Dead at 15 sequel of course and there's another idea I'm pretty excited about. So I'll of course, be asking for your opinions :)