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My first author talk and signing last week, Saturday, taught me a lot about what it means to be a professional author.
Readers can get the story from the pages of your book. What they are interested in is the author as a person, a real human being, and why he/she wrote the book in the first place, what will follow and what they can look forward to in the read.
Sitting in a circle with the readers, was a moment to remember... it was like coming 'full circle' to the journey that had started 9+ years ago. The rewrites and rewrites... not for me... but so that the characters on the page are clear, coherent and concise to the reader. So that I deliver the best product I can and finish with a promise.
Readers can get the story from the pages of your book. What they are interested in is the author as a person, a real human being, and why he/she wrote the book in the first place, what will follow and what they can look forward to in the read.
Sitting in a circle with the readers, was a moment to remember... it was like coming 'full circle' to the journey that had started 9+ years ago. The rewrites and rewrites... not for me... but so that the characters on the page are clear, coherent and concise to the reader. So that I deliver the best product I can and finish with a promise.
Published on January 17, 2012 08:05
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Novel Ideas
Hi,
I was just Tweeting with another author, the wonderful RITA HERRON (Yes, Rita Herron!!) to be precise and realized that something I take as 'normal' in my everyday life - is actually strange for so many.
I'be been asked so many times now... where my story ideas come from. Do I imagine them? Do I take them from real life? Do I get them from something I read?
The truth is ideas for novels come to me in my dreams. Yes, my dreams. I usually (yes, it's become normal now) see the end of something first. It's usually a dramatic scene, a do-or-die situation, and I wake up with my heart racing.
It never hits me instantly... it takes a while for things to sink in and for the realization to dawn, that this is another scene, usually THE END, to another fiction novel.
Where do you get your ideas from?
I was just Tweeting with another author, the wonderful RITA HERRON (Yes, Rita Herron!!) to be precise and realized that something I take as 'normal' in my everyday life - is actually strange for so many.
I'be been asked so many times now... where my story ideas come from. Do I imagine them? Do I take them from real life? Do I get them from something I read?
The truth is ideas for novels come to me in my dreams. Yes, my dreams. I usually (yes, it's become normal now) see the end of something first. It's usually a dramatic scene, a do-or-die situation, and I wake up with my heart racing.
It never hits me instantly... it takes a while for things to sink in and for the realization to dawn, that this is another scene, usually THE END, to another fiction novel.
Where do you get your ideas from?