Whenever i travel for work I like to read national geographic during those few times that I have to "power off anything with a on off switch." It takes just about the right amount of time to reach 10K feet as it takes to read an article. One that read a month or so ago dealt with elephant orphans in Kenya (here). It was a great article and I almost decided to write a mystery novel set in that type of environment just cause I thought the story was so terrific.
I get my ideas from a myriad of sources, from friends, from relatives, from all sorts of articles that I read. I passed this article along to a fellow National Novel Writing Month writer who from what I've read and seen from her website has some significant experience in Africa. Who know, maybe a few years from now I'll have the chance to read a mystery novel that focus on orphan elephants. If it was inspired by this article its bound to be good.
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