Thanks for letting me
take part in your blog!
Recently I had the
opportunity to teach a class on coming up with story ideas. I had a great time
sharing all the different options that I’d asked for from fellow authors. The
class interacted well and I even got a few of the people to read their prompts
out loud.
Ideas come from all
over and I’ve learned that if I come up with a story plot, I need to write it
down immediately or the idea will be forgotten. I’ve lost a couple when I
thought I could remember later, so now I write it down on my phone as soon as I
get it.
The concept of this
story came from a few places. I’d had dreams of stairs that I couldn’t get out
several times over my life. I would just sigh and start trying to find a way
out, even though I knew there was no way out of there.
The second part of
the story came while I was waiting in the temple and I was thinking over a few
things about the plot. Suddenly the idea came that I should add Cinderella into
the story. She ran the stairs to get away from the ball and I could see her
fitting so perfectly into the story.
Never give up on your
story ideas. They may not work right that second, but they can fall into place
with other stories as you go along.
Thanks again for
letting me take over. Happy reading and writing!
Endless Blurb:
Sydney lives her
nightmares every night. While other teenagers are dreaming of boys or traveling
to exotic places, she must run a staircase with no beginning or no end, or a
terrible debt will never be paid.
Just before her
seventeenth birthday, the dreams change. She is no longer alone. 
But her nightmares don’t
end when she wakes up. Her stepmother and stepsisters threaten to ruin
everything she holds dear. She must protect the secret that both she and her
father have magic or they will use it to their advantage.
As Sydney learns to
control her magic, what seemed impossible before—escaping her stepmother and
those ever-present stairs—is now at her fingertips. When she learns the
ultimate plan of her evil captor, Sydney must stop her at all costs, or she
will forever be trapped inside her nightmares.
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Author Bio:
Jaclyn is an Idaho farm
girl who grew up loving to read. She developed a love for writing as a senior
in high school, when her dad jokingly said she was the next Dr. Seuss (not even
close, but very sweet). She met her husband, Steve, at BYU, and they have six
happy, crazy children who encourage her to keep writing. After owning a bookstore
and running away to have adventures in Australia, they settled back down in
their home in Utah.
Jaclyn now spends her
days herding her kids to various activities and trying to remember what she was
supposed to do next. She has published six books in a year, and her mind is
still reeling from the awesomeness. Her books include The Princess and the Prom
Queen; Magicians of the Deep; the Luck series--Stolen Luck, Twist of Luck, Best
of Luck, and Just My Luck, a novella; and the upcoming YA fantasy, Endless.
Follow
Jaclyn . . .
Twitter: www.twitter.com/jaclynweist
Blog: www.gatesofatlantis.com
