Recently
I read through some interviews I did way back when – and I found these three
questions and answers worth sharing.
If you were to start your writing
career over tomorrow, what would you do differently? Wow… I would
have taken my first book to two published writers, or paid an editor, to
go through it and tell me what needed to be changed. I would have learned from those mistakes
rewritten that first book, before starting my second book. Then I would have repeated the
process. Why? I wrote ten books before an editor
touched my work. I could have saved
myself a lot of work had I learned early on what mistakes I was making, so
I didn’t repeat them in each book.
What
authors -you know personally- have inspired your writing? I must
say Kat Martin has been and incredible inspiration and support. She believed in me and my writing. Stella Cameron has given me sound advice
as well as been a great source of inspiration and support. Also writer BJ Daniels is very
inspirational, a Montana author who exudes confidence and a direction in
her writing career.
What
authors - you don’t know personally - have inspired your writing? I drew
great inspiration from Cassie Edwards and Sheryl Henke, Dean Koontz and
Lisa Jackson.
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Good advice and love the quote from Henry Ford, too. Hugs!
ReplyDeleteGood advice. I was fortunate enough to begin my career in the days of carbon paper and re-typing mss every time you received the mss back with a rejection. I was also fortunate enough to have editors who wanted the entire mss and then had the time to make comments. I remember the first rejection I received. The editor complimented me on the story idea and the plot but said "Your characters are existing in a vacuum. You need to put in some of the setting." I did this and sent to another publisher. More advice came back. In the end that book was published but the advice I received on the different parts of writing a story was valuable and that's how I learned to tell stories.
ReplyDeleteAnd here I thought I was part of your inspiration. Silly me. *lol* Great article. I can't believe how much my writing has improved since I first began. Every day is a learning experience.
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