#PennedPossibilities 1015 — Were any of the scenes in your WIP inspired by your own experiences?
Inspired? That presumes "motivated to write." Informed, definitely.
I've mentioned this before. My mother was a bailbondswoman who did her own bounty hunting in the 1960s. Some of her clients were also her friends. You could say I was raised around thieves and crooks. Funny thing about such people? They're regular people, just criminal—some with stories of being incarcerated in Leavenworth, others about bank robbery.
Bolt, the MC in the WIP: we know from the beginning she did something that caused her to run from the law. She's really a regular Joe (okay, Jane, but you get the idea) and very much a jock, and she's well aware she's done wrong. Blackmailed by the mob as she is, she has no choice but continue being a criminal. Oh, the mob thing? Well, my mother knew some of them, too.
So inspired? Not so much. Definitely informed.
Interesting upbringing, though, huh?
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