Ask the Author: Tracy Manaster
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Tracy Manaster
When in doubt, do something absurd. In dialogue, have a character actually say they things they want to instead of letting them chicken out. Know what your character fears and make that fear rear it's scaly head in some uncomfortable capacity. If you're stuck, make things ugly, thorny, or complicated. It's much easier to rein in a draft that's too much than to pretend one is lively where nothing actually happens.
Tracy Manaster
Humor is my go-to coping mechanism, so my current work in progress is evolving from a self-imposed challenge to make the things that I bump hard on or fear in my everyday life humorous, and therefore digestible. I've yet to tell my agent that I'm writing a *funny* book on depression, the many ways kids with special needs are treated inequitably, economic anxiety, and bomb threats--for young adults.
I'm about forty pages in and it's coming together quicker and better than anything I've previously written but still: I'm going to wait to tell her so I can see the look on her face.
I'm about forty pages in and it's coming together quicker and better than anything I've previously written but still: I'm going to wait to tell her so I can see the look on her face.
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