Ask the Author: R.K. Vetter
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R.K. Vetter
Read. Write. Share. Learn. Grow. Repeat.
Seek instruction through the modeling of successful authors. Read their products and learn through their craft.
Write with your own, true voice. Write from your heart.
Share in a writing group or with a mentor or editor.
Learn from the feedback.
Grow your skills as you implement that feedback.
Repeat the process in an ever upward spiral of writing progress, development and evolution.
Seek instruction through the modeling of successful authors. Read their products and learn through their craft.
Write with your own, true voice. Write from your heart.
Share in a writing group or with a mentor or editor.
Learn from the feedback.
Grow your skills as you implement that feedback.
Repeat the process in an ever upward spiral of writing progress, development and evolution.
R.K. Vetter
An idea, topic, story line, character, scene or rhyme scheme ignites in my brain and keeps niggling at me until I have to write it down. It’s sort of like a pilot light that ignites a furnace. It burns steadily as a small flame until the heat is turned up on the thermostat, then Boof!
R.K. Vetter
I love the wordsmithing, the storytelling, the invention of characters I enjoy, and the delving into topics which are of great interest to me. I am at an age when I am finally taking the advice of others to write about things I love (Thus, my Twitter name, @h3artwritr.), and not necessarily write to “assignments”. If what I love to write about attracts others when I share, so much the better!
R.K. Vetter
I am currently working on the second book in my first trilogy. The first book, Poo Skadoo: Everything's Jake, takes the main character through the months following the loss of an older neighbor lady, Jake's concerns about her husband and his dog, the acquisition of a family kitten instead of the dog Jake wanted, transitioning from being an only child to being a big brother with babysitting responsibilities, and maintaining summer friendships. This book gave me a chance to research animal hero stories.
The second book, Poo Skadoo, Too! What's the Skinny? has been outlined and has grown through three chapters. This is an interesting process, as, for example, all character facts and timelines have to match from book to book. This is an organizational wrestling match at times.
The third book, Poo Skadoodle: Hunky Dory-ish is, through necessity, being outlined as I write the middle book. Truth is, I have to leave the process for a reprieve from the "back-and-forth" of the trilogy, then go back to it. If another author has good hints on how to make this process smoother, please chime in!
I am a happy ending author, so I look forward to that!
The second book, Poo Skadoo, Too! What's the Skinny? has been outlined and has grown through three chapters. This is an interesting process, as, for example, all character facts and timelines have to match from book to book. This is an organizational wrestling match at times.
The third book, Poo Skadoodle: Hunky Dory-ish is, through necessity, being outlined as I write the middle book. Truth is, I have to leave the process for a reprieve from the "back-and-forth" of the trilogy, then go back to it. If another author has good hints on how to make this process smoother, please chime in!
I am a happy ending author, so I look forward to that!
R.K. Vetter
I deal with writer's block by picking a topic in which I am very interested. The last time it was crows. I took the "block" time to research everything I could possibly find on crows. I stashed my notes away until I decided how I would like to format them into a written work. At last, the fountain spouted forth. I wrote a picture book's worth of crow facts in a rollicking rhyme. It was fun because it was all so interesting to me. And I produced a finished product I didn't expect to produce!
R.K. Vetter
Sharley's Lessons, my most recent book, came from the profound childhood experience of losing a friend to leukemia when we were ten. It also came from my own experience growing up on a farm and interacting with country schoolmates, who were also farm friends.
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