Ask the Author: Anne Powers
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Anne Powers
I was the head of a college art department, and had many opportunities to observe how art students use their passion for art to deal with traumas in their lives. I began to realize that people who have creative outlets have a ready savior when crisis hits, and those who don't only have their sadness.
Anne Powers
I am a visual artist who was riven from her art supplies by circumstance. I found myself with only a laptop and words. Being a terminally creative type, I adapted and began to peck,peck,peck.
But before that...I read, and read, and read many wonderful books by many talented writers and learned what makes a good book that you don't want to put down.
But before that...I read, and read, and read many wonderful books by many talented writers and learned what makes a good book that you don't want to put down.
Anne Powers
A novel about three women who love a lake.
Anne Powers
Start writing. Scribble like your hand is on fire, lay down the most mundane everyday happenings in your journal and then go back and rewrite them over and over, until you feel yourself digging deep and editing and using the most spare but elegant words to tell the simplest stories.
Anne Powers
The best thing about being a FICTION writer is the freedom from reality, gravity, rules. There is no high like being able to create a world completely from scratch!
Anne Powers
I drink some caffeine or wine, take a walk, breathe some fresh air, and come back to the book with fresh eyes.
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