Ask the Author: A.K. Downing
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A.K. Downing
Thank you for taking the time to ask a question JM! The journey of this novel started over four years ago. My daughter and I were walking home from a play date and she made up a story about a man who stole things. At some point during her story she told me his name. When I got home I wrote the name down the best I could remember: Mehgo Capiro.
Over the course of the next 4 months, bits of my story began to surface. I thought it odd that ideas kept coming to me… so I wrote some of them down. And then I wrote down more. And before I knew it I had notepads, tablets of all sizes, and scraps of paper scattered everywhere -coated with plot points, rough sentences, and random thoughts.
There were many times I wanted to stop writing. Late nights of editing after I put my daughter to bed. Evenings when I just couldn’t seem to make a paragraph work. But I was consistently driven to continue by the sheer need to tell the story. And now I’m so glad I kept with it. The story that took 4 years to pull together is finally published for someone else to enjoy!
Over the course of the next 4 months, bits of my story began to surface. I thought it odd that ideas kept coming to me… so I wrote some of them down. And then I wrote down more. And before I knew it I had notepads, tablets of all sizes, and scraps of paper scattered everywhere -coated with plot points, rough sentences, and random thoughts.
There were many times I wanted to stop writing. Late nights of editing after I put my daughter to bed. Evenings when I just couldn’t seem to make a paragraph work. But I was consistently driven to continue by the sheer need to tell the story. And now I’m so glad I kept with it. The story that took 4 years to pull together is finally published for someone else to enjoy!
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