Ask the Author: Rosemary Ness Bitner
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Yes. All characters, locations, settings, events, conversations, etc. are fictitious.
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Idea? Well, there's a lot of factors that input themselves into one's mind; but, the best way to describe the idea for the last book is the light bulb effect, the Ahh Ha moment, when all the thoughts about human behavior just sort of clicked and attached to my imaginary characters. It's a function of letting one's mind think beyond and below what one observes on the surface of life's stage. It's the glimpse of a character trait of someone you remembered, and then attaching that trait to a fictional character in a fictional story. It's a magical thing. Like when Bud is purring on my lap, my mind just goes off on these wild spins, kind of like a Ferrari screaming flat out on a straightaway. It won't stop. Nothing stops it! It just races forward wild horse powerful, at an exhilarating breathtaking pace until I collapse exhausted late in the evening. Bud is asleep by then. I stumble off to bed and awake in the morning to read what all spewed out of my mind and try to make sense of it, try to keep what's good and toss what's too crazy! Ideas, God love ideas!
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Inspiration? That's a need thing. It's what tells me that there's someone out there, some special person, whose heart needs to feel that there's hope and goodness in the world and it's there waiting for discovery; and that whomever is reading my work, that person will always have hope, will always find strength and courage from my work. I feel compelled to write, to give something of myself, through my writing, to that special need each of us has.
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After THE SECRET AND THE BUTTERFLY and WHEN THE BUTTERFLIES COME, I have an overwhelming need to get my heart around Hud, the character I introduced at the end of WHEN THE BUTTERFLIES COME. Hud is a very special man who needs to follow the callings of his spirit grandfather, Big Chief, and his mother and father, Big horse Bob and Little Sparrow Barbara. He is like so many of our youth today, lost and confused. He is given over to vices of drinking and whoring, but he desperately needs a good woman. Big Chief assures him that she is out there and she will find him, so I must help these two discover each other in this crazy world of ours; and I must do it in a way that wraps time around it because the honest true soul of Marty, the soul she glimpsed when she was with Bob in THE SECRET AND THE BUTTERFLY, never died. It just transformed. A love that Marty knew, that intense love she glimpsed with Bob, does not, can not be allowed to die. Marty's soul and spirit return and know love even more deeply than she did before. Marty's lusts were insatiable in my first book, but her love, her goodness is even more her behavioral center in my work in progress. Marty is a lovely soul that emerges from all her lusting and debauchery. Her sexuality, rest assured, continues unabated. Marty gives all her love with honest abandon. She is glorious, as before, a true woman.
Rosemary Ness Bitner
Advice to aspiring writers? Write. Write from your heart. Write with love in your heart. Write with goodness in your heart. Write with love of your readers in your heart. Mentally hug every one of your readers as you write because you love all of them and you want them to take away this part of your soul, this writing you are doing. Write with the idea that you are giving them something, a gift from your heart. Never write with the idea that you are trying to pry a few dollars out of them. Put your love in your writing and everything else will somehow take care of itself.
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The best thing about being a writer? There's a certain element of romance involved with it; that is, romance with my own mind. Writing allows the mind to express its feelings and its hopes and all the other factors that inspire it. You may see a person that you just want to hug and kiss. Well, that might be inappropriate, but you can write about it; or, you may see someone you'd like to smash on the head with your frying pan. That, too would be inappropriate, but you can write about it. In my case, there's a special bonus. Bud, my beloved cat, seems very tranquil when I'm writing. He sometimes sits on my lap and just purrs softly. I like that he's happy with my writing. That's very special. A special kind of love feeling comes from my heart and I feel I must keep writing to enjoy those special moments with Bud. Animals have feelings that are honest and uncomplicated. Bud exemplifies that. He's in love with my act of writing, my doing of writing. Words can not describe how wonderful it feels to have that sort of special relationship with one's pet. It's magical. Writing with Bud on my lap is magical.
Rosemary Ness Bitner
Writer's block. I accept it. By accepting things about yourself that are natural and can not be changed, I believe one finds true peace. When true peace comes another miraculous thing happens. A door opens to new thoughts and ideas and the "writer's block" runs off on its own. The mind must be trusted by one's spirit. The mind will, on its own without disrupting it with tricks or forced regimens, naturally move forward past the block; kind of like a tesseract, or a Mandelbrot series in mathematics, the mind will naturally propagate itself from the block to the new fractal of growth and exploration. Come to peace with writer's block. Do not fight it. If you fight it, it becomes like those Chinese finger traps and pulls you in tighter.
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Bob and Barbara, or Big Horse and Little Sparrow. Why? Because they personify the nature of true love. When true love attaches the hearts of those who discover it, that true love never leaves them. True love can go through lives' experiences apart from each other, yet the true love persists through all adversities. True love endures.
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Oct 03, 2018 08:09AM · flag