Ask the Author: Anne Gordon Perry
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Anne Gordon Perry
Ideas just seem to come! The hard part is the follow through. For example, one summer I was taking a water aerobics class with a group of older women and, disliking exercise, I occupied my mind with imagining what the young lifeguard thought of us as we were thrashing around in the water (which would go down considerable as we got out). It resulted in a short story from the lifeguard's POV. But I had to force myself to write it! When I did, though, it was a fun--and different--experience, as the POV was varied so much from my own. The secret for me is all in the follow through--and after the writing this means great care with revising and editing. A process!
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Anne Gordon Perry
Write. Read. Write. Revise. Meet with an actual or online writers' group. Be willing to listen and heed advice. Trust your own instincts as well. Be willing to take your project to the fullest extent possible; don't succumb to discouragement. Find a way to bring your project to its greatest fruition. Let it fly! Write again. Rewrite yourself as you are writing.
Anne Gordon Perry
The mole stories began with an imaginative moment--I was imagining what it was like to be a mole, under the bed covers. What would it be like to see a whole new world upon emerging from underground? Thus, my character Mozie was born, and what is now chapter two. The rest of the stories, including the introductory and concluding chapters, came a few years later. The 80-page illustrated book, now in print, is the result of not giving up. A single imaginative moment can yield fruition, with commitment.
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