Ask the Author: Jennifer Jorski Ebert
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Jennifer Jorski Ebert
This is something that happens to me with every book I write. Sometimes, I will set that particular book aside for a couple of days, sometimes months, or even a year or more. I will start another project and when I'm not sure where to go with the new story, I will drift back to the other one. For me, a lot of my writing is about emotion and it is often projected into my work. If I am feeling really emotional, you will see it in my writing, such as in Blackbird, for example. That is another reason I might take a detour.
Jennifer Jorski Ebert
I am currently working on another psychological thriller. I enjoyed writing Blackbird so much and had a story invading my thoughts that needed to be told. I also have another small town romance I started before the holidays, and an espionage thriller in my back pocket which is almost half completed. I am hoping to have all three out this year.
Jennifer Jorski Ebert
For me, there are so many great things about being able to write. One is all of the amazing people I meet. I love the readers I meet and the writing community is so amazing. On a more personal level, I love that I can take my own feelings that I sometimes don't know what to do with and put them into a character on paper. I want to write characters people can relate to and I want people who read my books to have an emotional connection with the characters. Maybe not all of them. Lol.
Jennifer Jorski Ebert
(I can tell you a horror story in one sentence.) I still have children living at home.
Jennifer Jorski Ebert
I got the idea for Going Home to Cedar Falls one day when I was researching newspaper articles. I discovered a woman in the United Kingdom who had accidentally left a stack of 70 black and white photographs, love letters, and poems, on a bus. She had been a socialite and he was a doctor who was training other doctors in Nigeria. In doing more research, I discovered 4 or 5 more articles written before and after the owner of the letters were found. I wondered what that relationship must have been like, how it had started, and what happened after. I hope you love the story of Sal and Lu just as much as I enjoyed writing it.
Jennifer Jorski Ebert
My advice is the same advice I have been given. Just write. You can always go back and edit later, but you can’t edit a blank page. And don’t give up.
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