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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] In one creation tale, from Tumblr\u2019s zwischendenstuehlen<\/a>, books are hatched as tiny tomes \u2014 blind and naked creatures. Diligently, the writer makes little jackets to keep them warm during the first dark season of their lives. Those that make it through their various trials grow up to be big and strong and wise, taking their place on the shelf beside their older sisters and brothers.<\/p>\n

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But seriously, where do <\/em>books come from? <\/span>For Ian Rankin<\/a>, there’s usually a question he wants to answer, a theme he wants to explore. Hilary Mantel admits that the idea that kicks off a book is often quite slight and circumstantial: \u201cI see something, hear something, think ‘That would make a story,’ and then I find its vast hinterland.”<\/span><\/p>\n

In her book, Process: The Writing Lives of Great Authors<\/i><\/a>, Sarah Stodola looks at how well-known contemporary writers got the brainwave that became their first book.<\/p>\n

1. Loved Ones<\/b><\/span><\/h3>\n

\"\"<\/a>David Foster Wallace found his spark in a comment from a college girlfriend who said she\u2019d rather be a character in a book than a real person. Wallace couldn’t stop thinking about what she said, what she meant by it, what the difference was, really, between a fictional character and a real-life person. The idea grew into The Broom of the System<\/em>, a novel about a woman who doesn\u2019t believe in her own reality. <\/span><\/p>\n

2. Newspapers<\/b><\/span><\/h3>\n

Joan Didion, while working at Vogue<\/em> in New York, happened upon a newspaper item about a man charged with killing his farm\u2019s foreman in the Carolinas. The image stuck. She transported the scene to her home state of California and it became the core of her first novel, Run, River.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

3. Illness<\/b><\/span><\/h3>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/i>An Anatomy of Inspiration<\/a><\/em>, written by Rosamund Harding and published in 1942, includes the experience of T.S. Eliot, famous for his stream-of-consciousness poem \u201cThe Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.\u201d Eliot notes that physical illness can act as a gateway to creativity. He argues that serious illness provides not only the light-headed obliteration of the detritus of daily living, but allows for what he calls \u201can incubation period,\u201d a time free of life’s insistent burdens during which ideas can be processed by the unconscious.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThis disturbance of our quotidian character\u2026 results in an incantation, an outburst of words which we hardly recognise as our own (because of the effortlessness),\u201d he writes, adding the caveat, \u201cthough we do not know until the shell breaks what kind of egg we have been sitting on.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Illness isn’t the only way to lift the weight of reality. Dreams and sleep can do it, says Saul Bellow: “You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.” Or writing itself:\u00a0“You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you,” advises Ray Bradbury in\u00a0Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You.<\/em><\/p>\n

4. Good Health\"\"<\/a> <\/b><\/span><\/h3>\n

On the other hand, Lewis Carroll, in his essay Feeding the Mind<\/em>, proposes that for the imagination to work properly, it must be nourished regularly and well. Just as the body thrives on a healthful diet, he advises that <\/span>\u201cit is one\u2019s duty, no less than one\u2019s interest, to \u2018read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest\u2019 the good books that fall in your way.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

For Penelope Lively, the idea for a new book \u201ccomes to me, in a strange way, from reading rather than from living or observation.” Or, in the words of Stephen King,\u00a0“If you don’t have time to read, you don’t have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”<\/span><\/p>\n

How to Birth a Book<\/b><\/h3>\n

Writers are generally prodigious readers, but according to James Webb Young, reading is not enough. In his little 1939 book, A Technique for Producing Ideas<\/a>,<\/em> available now on Kindle, Young eschews mysticism and serendipity. Instead, he lays out five steps in the creative process. Knowledge comes first and is basic to good creative thinking, he says, but it has to be digested for those nuggets of received wisdom to emerge as something new. <\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Einstein called this process intuition. <\/span>Young <\/span>likens it to what takes place in a kaleidoscope. \u201cEvery turn \u2026 shifts these bits of glass into a new relationship and reveals a new pattern\u2026the greater the number of pieces of glass the greater the possibilities for new and striking combinations.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Young emphasizes training the mind<\/span> not only to gather new information but to be alert to these new relationships. Then comes a stage he calls Unconscious Processing. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cDrop the problem completely and turn to whatever stimulates your imagination and emotions. Listen to music, go to the theater or movies, read poetry or a detective story.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Some writers take naps. I take a long, hot bath. My bet is that Rebecca Solnit goes for a walk. Thinking, she points out in <\/span>Wanderlust: A History of Walking<\/span><\/em><\/a>, is generally thought of as \u2018doing nothing\u2019 \u2014 and doing nothing in our production-obsessed culture is increasingly frowned-upon. <\/span>Walking is a way of doing nothing and something at the same time, allowing the mind to wander “so readily into religion, philosophy, landscape, urban policy, anatomy, allegory, and heartbreak.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

Solnit is not alone in extolling the virtues of not-doing. Of being present rather than productive \u2014 calming the chaos of the quotidian so the imagination can soar. Contemporary research confirms <\/span>Freud’s belief that daydreaming is essential to creative thought.\u00a0Wendell Berry, too, wrote that<\/span> in solitude, where one is without human obligation, \u201cone\u2019s inner voices become audible. One feels the attraction of one\u2019s most intimate sources\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

If we\u2019re lucky, says Young, our period of Unconscious Processing propels us to the fourth stage, the Ah-ha! Moment. Exhilarating and exuberant, inspiration dawns, seemingly out of nowhere. Then the fifth stage sets in, what Young calls \u201cthe cold, gray dawn of the morning after.\u201d This is where Ah-ha! Is put to the test of Oh yeah? Where inspiration must learn to walk and talk and fly or be left by the roadside with all the other brilliant but unworkable ideas. <\/span><\/p>\n

The Road to Refuge<\/em><\/b><\/span><\/h3>\n

Three things came together to spark Refuge<\/em>, my novel that will come out later this year. <\/span><\/p>\n

I was reading Hayden Herrera\u2019s biography of Frida Kahlo, and a line jumped out at me. \u201cShe had many nurse-companions.\u201d I hit my forehead with the flat of my hand. Of course she did! Anyone that sick would have had a practical nurse at her side throughout those first years after the trolley she was riding in was T-boned by a bus. <\/span><\/p>\n

My great-aunt Mabel was not only a practical nurse, she was also a collector. After she died, her scrapbooks found their way to me. I was flipping through her record of medical oddities, wondering about Frida Kahlo\u2019s practical nurses, when I came upon a tiny clipping: “Dr. Maurice Brodie has just received shipment of 4,000 rhesus monkeys at the New York City harbour.\u201d What on earth would a person want with 4,000 monkeys?<\/p>\n

My brain seething with monkeys and Mexican art, I opened the door to my\u00a0<\/span>rural neighbour, a fellow so full of stories they bubble out every time he sits down. He told me about a very old woman he\u2019d just visited. She lived alone on an island and had rigged up her cabin so she never needed anything from anybody. What brought her there, I wondered. What would happen if someone invaded her sanctuary, someone who needed something from her?<\/p>\n

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Nursing, monkeys, solitude. Mexico, New York, the wilds of eastern Ontario. As John Steinbeck wrote, “Ideas are<\/span>\u00a0like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.” <\/span><\/p>\n

Inspired, I read and read and wrote, and finally, after a dozen years, I turned the kaleidoscope just so and Ah-ha! the pieces miraculously fit together.\u00a0A book was born.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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