Ask the Author: Rachael Biggs
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Rachael Biggs
What ever happened with Joe Saccone?
Rachael Biggs
I went to the DMV. I didn't have an appointment.
Rachael Biggs
Reading is good. A walk in the forest. Journaling. I don't really believe in writer's block though, it's more like are you willing to sit down and suck or not? If you're not, I think you're more stubborn than stuck and if you are then eventually you will come unstuck. If you consider writer's block not knowing what to write next or where to take your story, I would say write something else. A poem, another story, a list of all the things in your busy little brain, just write something to get the muscle going.
Rachael Biggs
For me it's about putting the puzzle together and the satisfaction of having it all fall into place. Sometimes ideas come to me in an instant, sometimes they must be labored over and other times I have an idea about something and I have no idea what part of the puzzle it's going to fit into until much later. Any which way it happens though, I love the feeling of it all fitting in the end. It feels like the ultimate organization of my thoughts, and as a creative that is a rare and beautiful thing.
Rachael Biggs
Alternate between living and writing. Unless you have a killer imagination, there are no greater tales to tell than those life inspires. Get out there and do something worth writing about!
Rachael Biggs
Two things actually. Firstly I am in the midst of a book of mostly fictional short stories about women in peril, either by their own doing or the circumstances they're in. The working title is "Precarious Predicaments and Pernicious Proclivities". I like it, but it's a bit of a mouthful, so we'll see. The second book is another non-fiction about my dad and that's all I'm going to say about that for now because it's in the early stages of the outline.
Rachael Biggs
I find unless I'm on a deadline imposed by someone that is paying me, I can only write when everything else is taken care of. If I need to go grocery shopping or there's something stressing me out I find it very hard to write. So my inspiration is a well-organized and functional life. How boring, right?!
Rachael Biggs
Yearning for Nothings and Nobodies is a memoir so everything comes from my life. The story revolves around the complicated relationship with my mother though, so it's not EVERYTHING that ever happened, just the stuff that pertained to her.
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