Christopher Wright
Sage
So my current WIP was based on a feeling I got one day as I was driving from where I lived in Fredericksburg, VA to where my grandparents lived in Charlottesville, VA. You usually get there by taking 20 up, but I decided to take a longer route and drive up 3 until I hit 29.
... It was a much longer drive. It was also a more secluded drive--I was driving at night and there were these long stretches of road where all you saw to the left and right were trees. Occasionally a break, and you'd see a single house out in a field, and then just trees again. And all of a sudden I wondered what would happen if I just pulled over to the side of the road and walk through the trees and see what was on the other side of them. It was a weird, eerie feeling, and in the back of my mind I thought that would be a neat story to tell. It took me about 20 years to get around to it.
... It was a much longer drive. It was also a more secluded drive--I was driving at night and there were these long stretches of road where all you saw to the left and right were trees. Occasionally a break, and you'd see a single house out in a field, and then just trees again. And all of a sudden I wondered what would happen if I just pulled over to the side of the road and walk through the trees and see what was on the other side of them. It was a weird, eerie feeling, and in the back of my mind I thought that would be a neat story to tell. It took me about 20 years to get around to it.