Ask the Author: Sally O'Keef
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Sally O'Keef
Read. If I'm having a hard time with a plot point, and I'm struggling to figure out what comes next. I try to get my mind off it and usually the time away helps me work through it.
Sally O'Keef
Doing what I love. Writing characters that I connect and identify with. Sharing those characters, which are so real and vivid to me, with my readers.
Sally O'Keef
READ! If you want to write, you have to read. Specifically read your genre, and read books on craft. I've read probably a dozen books on story, plotting, deep point of view, dialogue, even books on words per minute.
Sally O'Keef
Now that Every Breath is released, I'm moving on to my Contemporary Christian Romance which is tentatively titled, Some Assembly Required. Don't worry, Every Time (Jenny's story) is on the docket too.
Sally O'Keef
After the birth of my fourth child, I found myself immersed in books. I used them as a coping mechanism. They were a happy thing to help me get through postpartum depression. Then I started writing. It was an outlet that left me fulfilled. My first manuscript, which I titled, Immortals, was lost when we moved and our computer went kaput. But I'd found my passion. I wasn't writing to publish, I was writing for me. Because I loved it, and I had ideas that just kept coming. Then, last year, I wrote the first line to Every Breath. (Which actually didn't make it through revisions, but I loved it.)
"If someone told me yesterday I’d be sitting in a portable salon in the parking lot on the beach having every inch of my body waxed in preparation to be a contestant on the reality TV show ‘Couple’s Cruise’, I would have laughed in their face. "
Dylan cracked me up from the beginning. Her personality was feisty and everything I wished I were. I fell in love with her, and knew her story had to be the very first I published.
"If someone told me yesterday I’d be sitting in a portable salon in the parking lot on the beach having every inch of my body waxed in preparation to be a contestant on the reality TV show ‘Couple’s Cruise’, I would have laughed in their face. "
Dylan cracked me up from the beginning. Her personality was feisty and everything I wished I were. I fell in love with her, and knew her story had to be the very first I published.
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