Ask the Author: Chris Bowen
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Chris Bowen
The last book I published, A Bloody Book, came to me from my own experiences of teaching kids who come from troubled backgrounds and difficult lives. The book took a dark turn because I was dealing with some dark issues personally. Indirectly, I got some of that raw emotion out onto the page.
Chris Bowen
I don't know if I have ever considered it all as "inspiration". I write as a form of therapy of sorts. I write because I feel the need to get some stuff onto the page.
Chris Bowen
I'm getting pretty close to completing another book of classroom stories much like, Our Kids: Building Relationships in the Classroom. I'm also in the process of taking notes on an idea for a new young adult fiction book.
Chris Bowen
Write what you love. Write the stories that you want to read. You can't possibly be the only person that likes the stories and ideas that you like. Write them and figure it all out later.
Chris Bowen
Perhaps what I most enjoy about writing is the quality time you get with yourself inside of your own head. So often, our brains are jumping from random thought to random thought. Writing forces you, I think, to indirectly self-reflect on your life a bit.
Chris Bowen
When I was in college, a writing professor told us to write no matter what. If you had nothing to write or felt as if you had nothing to say that day, then write that. I had journal pages that started with the line, "I have absolutely nothing to write about today." Sometimes I would whine on and on about my lack of ideas, but eventually something would happen on the page.
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