“Once an idea has taken hold of the brain it’s almost impossible to eradicate.” – Inception

Writers are often asked where they get their ideas. The trick is to go exploring, whether in your neighborhood or halfway around the world: keep your eyes open, your notebook and camera handy, your ears sharp. Half Remember Dreams is a chronicle of some of my ideas… moments captured from life that hold stories inside them.

High up on the walls of Conwy Castle in North Wales, I found these flowers. They’d forced themselves into the cracks and moss that covered everything in this rainy place. Reclaiming the stones.

The castle was just a shell of what it’d been. Arches had fallen. Walls were missing. But you could still see the skeleton of life that had been built here. Of course I couldn’t help but imagine a smoking fire in the old kitchen fireplace. Tapestries hung on the wall of the now ceiling-less bedrooms. Wonder if anyone had ever fallen down the crumbling 91-feet-deep well. (Or were pushed?) Of course, walking through these ruins, I imagined what this place looked like 700 years ago. But my real question was…

What will it look like in another 700 years?