The Journey to Jordan by Debbie Lee
The inspiration for The Journey to Jordan happened out of a passing comment during a random conversation at my writer’s group one Saturday morning. I don’t even remember what we were talking about. The idea started to form on my way home and forty-five minutes later, I had the bare bones plot, the names of the two main characters, the last line of the book, and the title. I was thrilled. I have a difficult time with titles and usually leave them for last, so I was pleasantly surprised when that didn’t happen this time. My inspiration for Luke Kincaid was Carter Oosterhouse from HGTV. It helps me to use images of celebrities or pictures from magazines when I’m looking for my main characters. It gives me a visual to refer back to throughout the process. My inspiration for Jordan was a picture I’d cut out of a magazine. ...