How do stories come to a writer? Usually they don’t arrive whole cloth, with clarity and stunning originality. Sometimes stories don’t even start with an idea, but with a seed. Just a tiny proto-idea: a scene, a person, a place. We can’t be sure if this seed is alive or dead, good or bad. Will it grow into something worthy? Maybe. And maybe not. As we all know, there is a difference between an idea and a full blown concept which one might use an an elevator pitch to an editor