Author Interview Week: Day Five
1:00 AM
Day 5:
Was there any part of your book that was
particularly hard to write?
EJ:
Oh yeah. There’s a part of POSSESSION that I wrote
and rewrote and rewrote. Then in revisions with my agents, I took it all,
deleted it, and wrote it AGAIN. It seems to work well enough now.
BP:
All of it is hard to write. There’s story building, character
developing, research, word smithing. But the story keeps begging to be written
and I’m constantly daydreaming about what’s happening, but to actually get it
down and like the words I write, it’s becoming a little more difficult to be
consistent. I try to write a little at a time each day, but I struggle with wanting
to edit as I go, which is a story killer, and the distractions of my two little
boys pull me in different directions. I wish I could just write and not care as
much, like I did with my first novel when I thought no one would read it but
me. What I need is a ghost writer I could feed my ideas to so I could get
stories done faster… now that’s an idea!
JM:
Action scenes are always difficult for me. I
want to make them both exciting and clear . . . which is a challenge, so I take
my time to really get them right.
KP:
Some of the really emotional scenes were a challenge.
I tend to close down when really big, horrible things happen. Sometimes I’d
write a scene that should have been emotionally taxing for the characters only
to find I had bottled up their emotions the way I tend to bottle my own.
JR:
Yes! The ending! I swear, I'm just terrible at endings. I never seem to
get them right...just ask my editors. haha I'll also admit that a certain scene
with Mason towards the end was really hard to get through.
JH:
Yes, the part about what happened to Vee at
the Homecoming dance was very difficult for me.
LC:
Probably the ending! I didn't WANT to finish
writing it! It was so much fun!
PM: The scene when Nara dreams about Ethan was hard, because I wanted to write it with sympathy but also with honesty and strong emotion. I hope I accomplished that.
PM: The scene when Nara dreams about Ethan was hard, because I wanted to write it with sympathy but also with honesty and strong emotion. I hope I accomplished that.
Everyday brings a new question! Be back tomorrow!
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