The idea led me into the research, which continues to give me more ideas for the story.
You weren't being punished. You were waiting for me.
Though my books are written from a historical perspective, I have goon so far back that I am in the realm of prehistorical speculation rather than simple historical fact to weave my stories around.
Life sometimes gets in the way of writing.
I'm just writing a story that I want to read.
I had an idea for a story about a young woman who was living with people who were different, not just superficially different - such as hair colour, or eye colour, or skin colour - but different in some significant way.