Jaqueline Kyle's Blog - Posts Tagged "classics"
Advise for Aspiring Authors
The blog tour continues and today I'm talking with Tricia of Authors to Watch.
She asked me, What was the most challenging aspect of writing your book?
Retelling a beloved classic has peculiar challenges. How do you respect the characters and original author, but bring something new to the table? It’s rather presumptive to re-write Dickens – he’s amazing. I overcame the issue by sticking with the original style of tone and prose. That way the new content surprises and delights the reader and respects the legacy.
Another great question was, What advice would you offer to new or aspiring authors?
While I think my answer was good, I'd like to add more to my response here:
Write every day. Whether you feel like it or not. Train the muse to show up at a certain time, at a certain place and make sure you are there to meet him/her.
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She asked me, What was the most challenging aspect of writing your book?
Retelling a beloved classic has peculiar challenges. How do you respect the characters and original author, but bring something new to the table? It’s rather presumptive to re-write Dickens – he’s amazing. I overcame the issue by sticking with the original style of tone and prose. That way the new content surprises and delights the reader and respects the legacy.
Another great question was, What advice would you offer to new or aspiring authors?
While I think my answer was good, I'd like to add more to my response here:
Write every day. Whether you feel like it or not. Train the muse to show up at a certain time, at a certain place and make sure you are there to meet him/her.
Click here for the full interview.
Click here to enter to win $100 Amazon gift card
Researching and the Mash up Parody
For today's stop on the blog tour for Ebenezer Scrooge: Ghost Hunter, I wrote an article for Reading Shy with Aly. Aly suggested the prompt: what kind of research was required to write your book? and my first thought was: No Research! But that wasn't quite true.
I took a research trip.
I read and re-read the source material.
I watched a number of movie versions of A Christmas Carol.
I researched various myths and folktales to find the right supernatural creatures to populate my story with.
I did countless google searches on "public domain" and copyright laws.
I didn't realize that it was research at the time because I was having so much fun doing it! (Except for the last one. Copyright laws and public domain isn't fun at all.) There are all sorts of ways to research your book. If you enjoy your topic and are enthusiasitc about the material, it doesn't seem like work at all!
Click here to read the full article.
I took a research trip.
I read and re-read the source material.
I watched a number of movie versions of A Christmas Carol.
I researched various myths and folktales to find the right supernatural creatures to populate my story with.
I did countless google searches on "public domain" and copyright laws.
I didn't realize that it was research at the time because I was having so much fun doing it! (Except for the last one. Copyright laws and public domain isn't fun at all.) There are all sorts of ways to research your book. If you enjoy your topic and are enthusiasitc about the material, it doesn't seem like work at all!
Click here to read the full article.
How to Pick Your Supernatural Villain
Today my blog tour made a stop with Armand Rosamilia, an author of all things horror and gory. We talked a bit about villains that are over-done in our current media and how I went about finding unique villains for my book Ebenezer Scrooge: Ghost Hunter.
"...I felt like between Underworld and Twilight, vampires and werewolves were done. That’s a full spectrum of cheese-tasticness which makes it trite and a complete no-go..."
Check out the complete article here.
"...I felt like between Underworld and Twilight, vampires and werewolves were done. That’s a full spectrum of cheese-tasticness which makes it trite and a complete no-go..."
Check out the complete article here.
