Ask the Author: Lisa April Smith
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Lisa April Smith
If you really want to do it, read the type of books you admire and start writing. No one gets to be a professional athlete or musician by simply thinking about it. It takes years of study and practice.
Lisa April Smith
I don't know if it's the best thing, but I really enjoy spending time with my characters. They are very entertaining.
Lisa April Smith
I don't permit myself to have writer's block.
I sit down at my desk and start anywhere. Edit previous work. Update my outline, or time line and the ideas come. When I'm driving or listening to music, I give myself permission to daydream, to try improbable story lines before discarding them. A ten foot tall stalk comes from a single grain of corn. Imagination is a tool. Work with it.
I sit down at my desk and start anywhere. Edit previous work. Update my outline, or time line and the ideas come. When I'm driving or listening to music, I give myself permission to daydream, to try improbable story lines before discarding them. A ten foot tall stalk comes from a single grain of corn. Imagination is a tool. Work with it.
Lisa April Smith
I come from a long line of story-tellers and voracious readers. I wrote plays and short stories when I was a kid. My mother wrote short stories. But it takes more than desire to write a book. It takes hard work and discipline. My family passed that along to me as well.
Lisa April Smith
Jan. 15, 2016, I finished the third om the "Charlie" series, "The Second Best Time" and promised myself a few months for a much needed rest. Ironically, the ideas for the next in the series keep coming, for which I am very grateful. Thank you for asking.
Care to guess why I was on a deadline to finish "The Second Best Time?" The story is too exciting, too amazing, too unbelievable to reduce a few words. Visit the "About Lisa" page on my website and read "My Mile High Adventure." I guarentee you will grin.
Care to guess why I was on a deadline to finish "The Second Best Time?" The story is too exciting, too amazing, too unbelievable to reduce a few words. Visit the "About Lisa" page on my website and read "My Mile High Adventure." I guarentee you will grin.
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