E.N. McNamara
I think that the best advice I could give other authors is to write what you feel passionate about. The first book in my series was motivated by A Course in Miracles - a book that forever changed me. How great it would be, I thought, if I had learned these principles earlier in life. Well, there was my challenge. Could I write YA fiction that would touch on some of the ACIM lessons, yet still be engaging and maybe even funny?
Around the same time, I heard an author on NPR (whose name I can't recall) say that if you don't find your writing up to your standard, maybe you should lower your standards. Some how this little bit of advice, for better or worse, gave me the confidence to write 'Off the Grid' the first book in The Jamie Keller Mystery Series.
Once I got the Kellers inside my head I couldn't get them out. I've just published the fourth book in the series 'On the Brink', and am considering the title for book five.
So express yourself!! It cost nothing to write and it's very therapeutic.
What do you have to lose?
Around the same time, I heard an author on NPR (whose name I can't recall) say that if you don't find your writing up to your standard, maybe you should lower your standards. Some how this little bit of advice, for better or worse, gave me the confidence to write 'Off the Grid' the first book in The Jamie Keller Mystery Series.
Once I got the Kellers inside my head I couldn't get them out. I've just published the fourth book in the series 'On the Brink', and am considering the title for book five.
So express yourself!! It cost nothing to write and it's very therapeutic.
What do you have to lose?
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Faith Colburn
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E.N. McNamara:
Hi E.N. I see you responded to my request for guest bloggers. I am certainly interested in hosting you. I see you write mysteries, but I'd never thought of mysteries from a family angle. I've got my blog planned for January and February, but wouldn't it be fun to do a month on the theme of families in literature and cover every kind I can think of--mystery, romance, children's, poetry, dystopian, etc.?
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