Articles like this are what get my mental gears going:
http://shine.yahoo.com/healthy-living/the-strange-double-disapearance-of-teacher-hannah-upp--191509506.html
Where in God's name did Hannah Upp go for three weeks? How did she go from jogging outside of her apartment, to be found sunburned and floating (alive, thank God) in the Hudson River THREE WEEKS later and have no memory about that time at all?
How does it happen again? She disappeared for two days, and was found unharmed by friends who were searching for her.
This poor soul has no idea what happens to her. By all counts, she appears to be a very smart woman (a Spanish teacher and an assistant teacher at a Montessori school). Doctors have diagnosed her with a condition called Dissociative Fugue (sudden and spontaneous amnesia is characterized by a loss of identity, coupled with prolonged, seemingly directionless wandering).
I truly wish Hannah Upp all of the luck and health in the world.
But in stories like this (where unanswered questions abound) is where I find all sorts of inspiration.
So, go online and look on the news. Watch TV shows on the Discovery Channel, the History Channel, The Learning Channel or even HGTV to find the questions you don't have answers to. The answers you make up on your own makes for very entertaining fiction.
Happy Writing!
Cyndia Rios-Myers
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