Ideas for stories are everywhere!

Ideas for stories are everywhere!  For example, the three books covering Emerson’s summer with his Navajo grandfather came out of a casual conversation with friends one night.  I wanted to write a “boy and his dog” story, but place him in setting where he had no friends and no modern conveniences.  One of my friends laughed and said “Oh, that would be sheep camp out on the Rez.”   I decided to throw in a dachshund – a big misfit at sheep camp – and my story was born.

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