Kathy Houser
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Marcy Dermansky:
How do you come up with the predicaments your characters experience? Have you ever had a particular predicament as yr starting point and then changed yr mind and come up with something else?
Marcy Dermansky
I am a writer that doesn't outline. So, I am constantly surprised by what my characters do. I love this. The surprise is why I love to write. Even with a question like this, I don't know the answer until I start typing.
I started Very Nice because I wanted to write about a student/teacher relationship.
Hurricane Girl started with the idea of what happens if you lose your house to a hurricane.
The Red Car was a way to process my own divorce but I didn't know that until I started writing. I thought, initially, that I writing a Haruki Murakami novel.
Writers often talk about how much they hate writing. I get that. But for the most part, I love writing when I do it -- and that's why I do it.
I started Very Nice because I wanted to write about a student/teacher relationship.
Hurricane Girl started with the idea of what happens if you lose your house to a hurricane.
The Red Car was a way to process my own divorce but I didn't know that until I started writing. I thought, initially, that I writing a Haruki Murakami novel.
Writers often talk about how much they hate writing. I get that. But for the most part, I love writing when I do it -- and that's why I do it.
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Barb
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Picked up this book on a whim and loved it! No Question..Have to add one to post. ?
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