As a writer, I often use visual images (writing aids) to help me when I create a story. I like to think of these visual images as muses. I wonder if all writers use visual images? I know Heidi Champa was inspired by a visual image of a God-like looking man when she wrote her story, This One, That One, for Alison Tyler's Sexy contest and won.I just learned my story, Board Shorts is being published by Ravenous Romance's Men in Shorts anthology. The story is about surfing. I live in the midwest. Geographically speaking, Ohio isn't located anywhere near a large enough body of water to create mighty enough waves any person with an ounce of pride would surf on. As a side note, I have been told there are some individuals that are bold enough to surf lake Erie during the winter months (Oh drears). But then again, there are people that snow ski here in Ohio as well. Ohio is as flat as a pancake.
My point. Oh, fuck, what's my point? Oh yeah, I needed a visual muse to create my surfing story and hell, it worked. Robert Kelly Slater is pictured below. Yeah, he was my visual Board Shorts muse.
Please stay tuned for more details and more of my stories coming to a theater, I mean a website or bookstore near you.Surf's up in Ohio -
Neve
