Ask the Author: Ruth King Porter
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Ruth King Porter
This is what I have written in the front of my notebook. When the notebook is full, I move it to the next notebook to remind myself what to do when I’m blocked.
When you are stuck, if you humbly pay attention to all the details of what you will be working on when you stop being stuck, you find you are moving again. Make a laundry list of everything you are going to put in. You can sit and visualize the scene and the characters as if you were watching a movie. The more clearly you can picture it, the more clearly you can write it.
When you are stuck, if you humbly pay attention to all the details of what you will be working on when you stop being stuck, you find you are moving again. Make a laundry list of everything you are going to put in. You can sit and visualize the scene and the characters as if you were watching a movie. The more clearly you can picture it, the more clearly you can write it.
Ruth King Porter
I don't think I could write a mystery novel, but there are mysteries and surprises everywhere, so of course they show up in my novels. One of the biggest surprises, the most unexpected turn my life has taken is that my smart and clear-thinking husband of more than fifty years has developed Alzheimers. Who could have predicted that Bill Porter, who wrote the complicated and brilliant novel, Notes of a Self-Seeker, would get to a place where he couldn't remember that he wrote it. Alzheimers is definitely what I will write about in my next book.
Ruth King Porter
She ran down the street with the thing gaining on her, almost up with her as she jumped in the car and started to drive without looking back. She was just beginning to believe she was safe when she felt something touching her back.
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