Ask the Author: Marianne Hering
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Marianne Hering
I don't get writer's block. I just write. Sometimes the next day I read what I wrote and start over. I don't get blocked, I just get to where my quality is so bad that I think maybe I just should have stopped and cleaned the grout in the tub.
Marianne Hering
Being allowed to track down those ideas, follow rabbit trails, live in another world. Even nonfiction is so absorbing that it takes you way from the day to day and transports you to the pivotal life experiences, the moments that matter or should matter to all.
Marianne Hering
The Imagination Station book #20. The title isn't determined yet, but it's set in 1923 Tokyo during the Kanto earthquake.
Marianne Hering
I read a lot of nonfiction. True stories inspire me. The newspaper inspires me.
Marianne Hering
I'm writing about a Japanese social reformer. When I was editor of Clubhouse magazine, I reached out to author Katherine Paterson and asked for a fiction story. She said she couldn't write short fiction but that she was willing to write a nonfiction piece about Toyohiko Kagawa for the magazine. That was in the early 1990s. Since then, I've wanted to write more about Kagawa, and I decided to work his story into an Imagination Station book. Kagawa lived from 1888 to 1960, and I wanted a dramatic setting to introduce him to readers, so I chose the 1923 earthquake in Tokyo. Wow. Talk about drama.
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