📓 Notebook Pages #2

Every story starts somewhere.

Sometimes it’s a character.

Sometimes it’s a line of dialogue.

Sometimes it’s just one question that refuses to leave your mind.

This one arrived as a single sentence in the Notes app on my phone.

I don’t know the lighthouse keeper’s name yet.

I don’t know what waits beneath the waves.

I don’t know whether this becomes a short story, a novel, or stays exactly as it is.

But I know there’s something here.

So before this idea has a chance to become anything else…

I wanted to share the moment it began.

When a lighthouse keeper chooses silence over truth to avert violence at sea, her restraint is noticed—and an ancient order beneath the waves must decide whether mercy can survive being seen.

I love that stories don’t always arrive fully formed.

Sometimes they begin with a single sentence.

Sometimes that’s enough.

Until next time,

—Destiny

P.S. Where do your best ideas find you? Mine seem to love the Notes app on my phone.