Ask the Author: Michelle Hodkin
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Michelle Hodkin
"THE END OF THE LAST BOOK HAD ME QUESTIONING EVERYHTHING!!!"
Then I did what I set out to do. Which makes me very happy.
Then I did what I set out to do. Which makes me very happy.
Michelle Hodkin
I've learned never to say never.
ETA: http://www.ew.com/article/2015/11/02/...
ETA: http://www.ew.com/article/2015/11/02/...
Michelle Hodkin
Noah - Gryffindor
Stella - Hufflepuff
Jamie - Ravenclaw
Mara - Slytherin
Daniel - Ravenclaw
Joseph - Gryffindor
Stella - Hufflepuff
Jamie - Ravenclaw
Mara - Slytherin
Daniel - Ravenclaw
Joseph - Gryffindor
Michelle Hodkin
Noah would volunteer, Jamie would accept, Mara would cause a plane crash so they could eat the survivors instead.
Michelle Hodkin
Oh my.
Michelle Hodkin
It came out on November 4th, 2014 in the US!
Michelle Hodkin
Thank you!
As for your question--there is no normal. Whatever is normal is what works for you. I can say that every close writer friend of mine struggles with feelings of profound suckage in the drafting phase of their novels--I'm struggling with it now. I routinely write and trash and write and trash before I catch on the version that I don't hate enough to throw away completely before I revise it. The only advice I can give you is to work through it--you can't fix a blank page.
As for your question--there is no normal. Whatever is normal is what works for you. I can say that every close writer friend of mine struggles with feelings of profound suckage in the drafting phase of their novels--I'm struggling with it now. I routinely write and trash and write and trash before I catch on the version that I don't hate enough to throw away completely before I revise it. The only advice I can give you is to work through it--you can't fix a blank page.
Michelle Hodkin
I don't, I'm sorry. I kind of loathe the post office, so I avoid going as much as possible.
Michelle Hodkin
"Take care of yourselves," Stella said in a voice so quiet I almost didn't hear her. The anger had gone out of her, and she looked tired as she said to my brother, "It was nice to meet you."
"You too," he said. "Where are you going to go?"
Stella lifted her shoulders in a shrug and smiled sadly. "Home."
~*~
There you have it!
"You too," he said. "Where are you going to go?"
Stella lifted her shoulders in a shrug and smiled sadly. "Home."
~*~
There you have it!
Michelle Hodkin
All of them inspire my writing in one way or another--I can't read something without reacting to it, and every reaction becomes a part of how I think, which influences how I write. Even books I don't enjoy--sometimes I'll read a book and think, "This is exactly what I _don't_ want to do."
As for how I choose them, these days I mostly choose from recommendations by friends who know me and know what I love. But there have also been a ton of books and authors on my radar for decades who I haven't read yet for whatever reason (William Gibson and Philip K. Dick, to name two). And last--booksellers. I love walking into an independent bookstore and asking what the booksellers there are loving, and what they think I would like. There's no e-substitute for that.
As for how I choose them, these days I mostly choose from recommendations by friends who know me and know what I love. But there have also been a ton of books and authors on my radar for decades who I haven't read yet for whatever reason (William Gibson and Philip K. Dick, to name two). And last--booksellers. I love walking into an independent bookstore and asking what the booksellers there are loving, and what they think I would like. There's no e-substitute for that.
Michelle Hodkin
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Michelle Hodkin
I can't actually remember the first time I learned about them--I think it might've been in an English class when the teacher was talking about mythology?
The idea that there could be a reality-based explanation for myths fascinated me, and made me interested in Jung's ideas about the collective unconscious and archetypal figures and motifs. That led to an interest in Freud and psychology in general, and I thought it would be cool to take what seems like a straightforward young adult paradigm--misfit girl meets mysterious boy--and go really deep with it, to the point where I made psychological profiles of each of the characters in the books with the help of a psychologist. I wanted the motivations of Noah and Mara and the other characters to feel real to readers, so I borrowed them from real life.
The idea that there could be a reality-based explanation for myths fascinated me, and made me interested in Jung's ideas about the collective unconscious and archetypal figures and motifs. That led to an interest in Freud and psychology in general, and I thought it would be cool to take what seems like a straightforward young adult paradigm--misfit girl meets mysterious boy--and go really deep with it, to the point where I made psychological profiles of each of the characters in the books with the help of a psychologist. I wanted the motivations of Noah and Mara and the other characters to feel real to readers, so I borrowed them from real life.
Michelle Hodkin
If they had stayed inside of her, yes. They were implanted by Kells to make her 'safer'--to stop her from being able to exercise her ability, and that _did_ happen. But because her ability was a natural part of her, the attempt to "fix" what was never broken in the first place made her sicker, physically and mentally. The way I thought about it was like what often happens when you declaw a cat--because they can't use their first line of defense, they learn to use their teeth instead. Which is what Mara did when she began killing people with her hands.
Michelle Hodkin
Maybe? Maybe not? There's so much that goes into this, and I have control over absolutely none of it. But you do--I explain how in this post: http://michellehodkin.tumblr.com/post...
Michelle Hodkin
I don't know! I don't even know which actors are in the right age range to play them. So I depend on readers to come up with fancasts themselves. Here's who a lot of them have picked: http://michellehodkin.tumblr.com/post...
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