In a recent conversation with a friend, Ifeoma was thinking about how her inspiration arrives.

Ideas for books can appear at any time and in any place. The traditional maxim that a writer only needs a pen and paper may be true...and a camera too.

How do  I write?   

I don’t have a formula, or a place I can go to get ideas from, for a  new book.

 

Usually, ideas come when I least expect them. I could be doing

something so boring, like washing up, and bingo, a voice pops up

in my head.

 

For a example, the idea for my book, ‘My

Grandfather is a Magician,’ came when I was washing the dishes.

 

There, I was elbow deep in washing up liquid, and boom, I heard a

voice saying, ‘My grandfather is a magician.’  I thought, ‘This is strange.’

 

Nevertheless, I grabbed a pencil and a piece paper, and wrote it

down, (I like writing with a pencil.) Anyway, eventually that statement grew into a book.

 

I’m so glad I never dismiss anything that comes into my head,

you never know, it might be another book! Having said that, I have often thrown away pieces of paper with interesting ideas on them, mistaken them for rubbish!

 

On the whole I write about things that interest me.

Words by Ifeoma Onyefulu

My inspiration