{"id":135,"date":"2014-07-31T20:19:40","date_gmt":"2014-08-01T01:19:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jacquimorrison.ca\/?p=135"},"modified":"2025-02-16T04:43:06","modified_gmt":"2025-02-16T09:43:06","slug":"what-inspires-your-writing-by-jacqui-morrison-suspense-thriller-author","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jacquimorrison.ca\/?p=135","title":{"rendered":"What Inspires Your Writing? by Jacqui Morrison (suspense \/ thriller author)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Jacqui Morrison<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0is our guest blogger today. Jacqui has written two suspense thrillers for\u00a0Lachesis Publishing<\/a>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Kaitlyn Wolf Crown Attorney<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0The Vigilante<\/a>. Her books delve into the gritty underpinnings of society.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Today Jacqui shares what inspires her writing . . .<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

I am a visual person and a people watcher. The best writers I know have an extra spectator quality: the ability to be at an event and to be able to observe and participate. Once I heard that term for the first time I had an \u2018ah ha\u2019 moment, I was not alone; there were other people like me. I embraced my quirkiness as a gift.<\/p>\n

As a child I was a dreamer and imagined entire mansions full of secret staircases and hidden rooms. Doesn\u2019t every child dream in colour? If not they should, it\u2019s fun. Those early dreams morphed into daydreams, which turned into detentions for not paying attention at school. I\u2019d love to go back in time and let those teachers know that daydreams inspire my novel writing.<\/p>\n

I saw a woman (a stranger) walking across the road in my town in northern Ontario, Canada. The stranger was of Aboriginal descent, proud, beautiful and serene. Her features, high cheekbones combined with piercing brown eyes, enchanted me. I knew one day she\u2019d become a character. The chance encounter with the stranger, who I never saw again, percolated in my sub-conscious and she became the protagonist in my novelKaitlyn Wolf Crown Attorney<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0<\/i>The story of an Anishnaabe woman who experienced multiple \"\"<\/a>tragedies as a youth, rose above her circumstances and became a Crown Attorney only to be foiled by defense lawyer Maxine Swayman known as \u2018The Barracuda\u201d.<\/p>\n

Maxine Swayman, my reoccurring antagonist, is a red-haired, spitfire of a woman with beauty, poise and intellectual brilliance. She\u2019s manifested from my Irish heritage and the plethora of strong females I have known throughout my life. Maxine\u2019s personality comes from watching lawyers on Court T.V. on television, in court in real life and from my imagination. Maxine Swayman is the antagonist in both my novels\u00a0Kaitlyn Wolf Crown Attorney<\/a>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>and\u00a0The Vigilante<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

I\u2019m inspired by well-known authors including:\u00a0Peter Robinson<\/i><\/a>\u00a0the author of the Inspector Banks mysteries,\u00a0Agatha Christie<\/i>,<\/a>\u00a0Linwood Barclay<\/i>,<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Margaret Mitchell<\/i><\/a>, to name a few.<\/p>\n

Mysteries, my genre of writing, are like a puzzle. If you lose one or two puzzle pieces you\u2019ll never fully complete the picture. It\u2019ll haunt you.<\/p>\n

Mysteries, like those enigmatic mansions I created in my mind as a child, are my puzzles. I\u2019ll spend hours and days planting clues, and writing plot twists and when I\u2019m stuck, I\u2019ll spend time in nature. Nature\u2019s beauty never stops inspiring me and after a needed break, I\u2019ll return to my laptop ready to continue unraveling the puzzle.<\/p>\n

Connect with Jacqui Morrison on her\u00a0web site<\/a>, and on\u00a0facebook<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0twitter<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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