Ask the Author: Sara Bailey
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Sara Bailey
Probably Georgette Heyer's regency world - I like the dresses and the food always sounds so good too! And, I'm sure I could learn to swoon!
Sara Bailey
My favourite fictional couple are from film - Nora and Nick Charles from the series of films 'The Thin Man'. I love the quick banter they have back and forth and how well they seem to know each other. They work as a team both in detecting and in their marriage and they are hilariously funny.
Sara Bailey
Dark Water developed around ideas I'd had about what it was like to be an outsider coming to Orkney to begin with. But as the characters developed I became more interested in how those early, intense friendships girls have can turn and become destructive and potentially very damaging. I'm also interested in what evil is and how we perceive our own actions.
Sara Bailey
I look out if the window! Seriously, I live in one of the most beautiful places in the world and it is full of interesting people and stories. So, I look around me and I listen.
Sara Bailey
Getting Dark Water ready for publication -3rd October. Very excited about that. I have started the next book, but I'm just chipping away at it at the moment. It is more a series of ideas and scenes right now. I don't write in a linear fashion - the first draft is bits and pieces while I find my way to the story.
Sara Bailey
Write. If not every day then as often as you can. Writing is a muscle that needs to be exercised. Oh, and don't give up. If this is what you want you have to keep at it even when it seems you'll never get anywhere. Work on your craft and practice.
Sara Bailey
Easy- the days it goes well are the best days ever! Worth all the rest.
Sara Bailey
Write. Just write anything- shopping lists, the weather, why you can't write today, what would you write if you could (see where I'm going with this?). Writer's block is usually about fear. If you take away the fear of getting it wrong or not writing what you think you should, you often can find your way in. Best advice I ever got was "glue your bum to the chair". Fix a timer for 10 -20mins and just write. Then do it again the next day and the next.
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