Ask the Author: Megan Angelo
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Megan Angelo
Because I spend so much of the day parenting, I don’t struggle as much with the sort of block where you sit down and have nothing. Usually, by the time I’m able to sit down, I’ve been scribbling on post its and tapping lines of dialogue into my phone and thinking and thinking while I, you know, put a PJ Masks vehicle back together for the 60th time that day. But when I do feel blocked, I switch to another project. I just toggle over to some other file. That’s why I like to work on multiple things at once—just one feels like so much pressure.
Megan Angelo
For me, it’s all about that feeling you get when suddenly, amongst all the meh sentences and the details you haven’t worked out yet, you write something that makes you really happy when you read it back to yourself out loud. There’s that, and there’s when someone really connects with what you write. I love when a reader calls out a moment that I loved writing and says they loved reading it. It’s full circle.
Megan Angelo
Read and read, and don’t be afraid when your stuff starts out bad, or gets bad again, or just consistently seems bad for days and months in a row. It will always still happen, even when you’ve been at it for years. So what? No one ever sees it til it’s good, so it’s your secret. And really no reason to stop.
Megan Angelo
I’m working on a second book that is told entirely through a maid of honor’s speech to her lifelong best friend. Something happens in the weeks before the best friend’s wedding that turns the women’s world upside down—someone they were sure was a made-up person on AOL instant messenger, back when they were in high school, suddenly shows up, fully real.
And I’m working on a TV project, too, that I’m hoping to pitch shortly—about three suburban moms who find out their barre studio is not what it seems. It’s kind of a front for this underground dark society of moms, and the three women get recruited and swept up in this small-town revenge quest.
And I’m working on a TV project, too, that I’m hoping to pitch shortly—about three suburban moms who find out their barre studio is not what it seems. It’s kind of a front for this underground dark society of moms, and the three women get recruited and swept up in this small-town revenge quest.
Megan Angelo
Reading great fiction and watching sharply written TV always gets me excited to sit down and try to keep up. I just (literally ten minutes ago) finished Very Nice by Marcy Dermansky. I love her frank, clever writing and the fullness of her characters. TV wise, right now, I’m a big fan of You on Netflix.
Megan Angelo
I got the idea for the book while writing in my journal—in cursive. I realized that my kids and grandkids may not be able to read my handwriting. It felt like this big moment—I thought, I’d love to write something that looks at the future through that lens. More grounded in the differences between you and your grandmother than strictly in sci-fi.
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