Can characters survive a bad work of fiction?

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What if?

A blog post on Crimson Romance today talked about writers that transform a "what if" into a story.

And "what if" is really how everything starts, isn't it?

The editor asked the readers to share their "what if," here's mine:

art by Svenja Liv

What if all the life in our planet came from within Earth itself; everything connected into a grid of energy invisible to humans. The guardians of this "living energy" are women who call themselves witches.
The witches share a deep connection with all the elements and are mighty powerful, but they have one weakness: a soulmate - few humans in the entire world whose life energy is a perfect match for a witch.
When a witch meet a soulmate their attraction is uncontrollable and because the witch's power will grow exponentially if she's with her soulmate an ancient organization is out to hunt and kill them.


This is the "what if" that resulted in my latest manuscript.

It was such a fun story to write, I finished the first draft in less than eight weeks, now I'm editing and hoping to find a home for it soon.

So, what is your latest "what if" ?