Where’s your favourite writing space? Do you have one? I do have one main writing space. I’m lucky enough that at the moment I’m able to have a whole room of my house devoted to my work, which I generally … Continue reading
(From the audiobook giveaway) What’s the best advice you can give aspiring writers? I often get asked this in interviews, too, so it’s obviously a topic a lot of people are interested in. I think I’ve said most of what … Continue reading
More reader questions from the audiobook giveaway — a few quick ones together! What’s your favorite color? Green. But I am also very fond of blue. As a kid my favorite color was turquoise, which handily combines the two. How … Continue reading
When an idea strikes you, what do you do with it? Write it down in detail or as it jumps out at you? Or do you make an outline of it? To some extent, it depends on how strongly the … Continue reading
Are there any exercises you do to help you get better at writing or get more into it? To be honest, I’ve never been that into writing exercises. I feel like I do my best writing when it’s for a … Continue reading
Whenever I get an idea and trying to write it, my thoughts/plot goes all over the place. When I start writing it out, I find myself veering off into a whole different direction than I intended to. What can one … Continue reading
What genre or story plot are you likely to never write about? I don’t believe in saying never, because there have been things I thought I’d never write, but then I got just the right idea or my perspective changed, … Continue reading
What is the hardest part of the writing process for you? I know this without even thinking it over: Beginning. In a couple of different ways. On the small scale, the first few chapters of any book are the ones … Continue reading
Realized it’s been a while since I’ve done one of these–still a few more to go! Will cover two today since they’re both fun ones. Do you have a favorite animated ghost movie/series? Not animated–the only animated ghost-related show I … Continue reading
When you write, do you write out of order or chapter by chapter as the story unfolds? I always write in narrative order (so, the order I want things come up in the story, which isn’t necessarily chronological order due … Continue reading