Ask the Author: Colleen Faulkner
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Colleen Faulkner
I can't say I've ever had writer's block. Some days it takes me 10 hours to write 2 pages, some days I can write 15 in 6 hours and be done with my day. But I don't really think those slow days are writer's block because when I finish the book and reread it, I can't tell which parts of the book were written on slow days, and which ones were written on inspired days.
Colleen Faulkner
The people around me inspire me. I listen, I watch and I tell their stories.
Colleen Faulkner
I love being able to keep my own hours. I work a 40-50 hour work week, just like all of my friends, but I get to choose when to write which means it's easier for me to make time for friends and family.
Colleen Faulkner
Write. Write. Write. Read. Read. Read. So much of being a writer is about sitting in my office chair every morning. Being a writer isn't nearly as glamorous as it sounds!
Colleen Faulkner
I'm currently writing What Makes A Family, which will be an October 2016 release. It's a group of women who gather at the family farm on a little island in the Chesapeake Bay to say goodbye to their matriarch. It's a story about the messiness of being a family and loving each other sometimes not in spite of failings but because of them.
Colleen Faulkner
Coming up with the ideas is never the problem, it's choosing the right one for my next book. Like most writers, I'm an observer. (I've been called an eavesdropper.) I watch the world around me; I read the news. I'm very good at reading people and I'm fascinated by what makes us tick. I take little tidbits of information and ask myself "What if?" and somehow that becomes a premise, which sometimes becomes a book. Like most writers, I also take bits from my own personal life. Anyone who knows me well will see glimpses of me in my female protagonists and recognize events from my life. For example, growing up as a child, I had a great uncle who met a young woman at a carnival and brought her home to be his wife. It was quite a scandal. This tiny thread becomes the center of the new book I'm working on, What Makes A Family. The book isn't about this; it's about the complications of a family, good and bad, but Aunt May is there, buried in the pages and she makes me smile everytime I see her.
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