Ask the Author: Kelly Ilebode
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Kelly Ilebode
I am not sure how everyone's brain works - so I can only speak for myself - the inspiration is from everything around me. For example, I can go grocery shopping and the whole time, stories run in my head. Sometimes they are scary, sometimes funny. It is like watching a mini movie.. Sometimes I write those mini movies down if I like them, I continue with the story otherwise I just watch...
In Search of Grace is, right now, the only book that has actual real life experiences of mine in it....very cathartic for sure, but very draining. Not sure if I like writing from real life ...
In Search of Grace is, right now, the only book that has actual real life experiences of mine in it....very cathartic for sure, but very draining. Not sure if I like writing from real life ...
Kelly Ilebode
The Flight of the Sparrow - this is the second in the Kelly and the Angel series.
Kelly Ilebode
My advise for aspiring writers? Ask yourself "why do I write". I write because I cannot imagine NOT writing. Once I set aside my ego - and needing everyone to like my work (that will never happen) I started to write the way I was meant to write. Don't try and write like Nora Roberts, Stephen King, J.K. Rowlings - You are not them. Do not write the way your English teachers told you to write - write like you. After all of that, keep writing and try to write everyday.
Kelly Ilebode
Every time I get lost in my writing - that moment where I slip from the world I am in, to the world I am creating, I am in another place. For me it is the best feeling to come out of that moment and not know what time it is or what has happened for the 30 minutes (sometimes that is all the time I have) or on a great day hours. It is akin to meditating for me.
Kelly Ilebode
Knock on wood, never had it.....My issue has been finding the time to write with a very busy household.
Kelly Ilebode
I started writing The Turning Point after reading an article about clear cutting. I had seen the damage this could do to the forest if it was not done correctly. I don't believe that my original intent was to make it an environmentally conscious book, but it ended being that way.
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