Ask the Author: Lisa Doyle
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Lisa Doyle
I get to live many lifetimes--my own, and as many times as I want through my characters. What could be better than that?
Lisa Doyle
The most important thing is simply to do it. There are a endless reasons to write a book, and there are even more ways to procrastinate and avoid doing so. The most important thing to do is park one's self at a desk and write. It doesn't matter if the first version is absolutely pitiful. It doesn't matter if the characters don't develop as planned. There's plenty of time for editing later. Just write it, and finish it. "The End" are two of the most beautiful words to write!
Lisa Doyle
I'm only just starting to work on it now and fleshing it out, but I will say that my second book's protagonist is a social worker. And, she's not necessarily a very good one.
Lisa Doyle
I got the idea because of my son, Colin. In 2012, he was two, and still breastfeeding. I’ll go into more details about that journey in a future post, but one night before putting him to bed, latching him for the eleventy billionth time and absently humming “Yellow Submarine,” I began thinking about just how many times I’d breastfed my child. For close to a thousand days, multiple times per day, we’d had those tender moments of quiet, rest and fulfillment. Thousands of moments filled with snuggles, sleepy smiles and the ever-growing bond between my little guy and me.
Then, I started to think about how much that could be worth. And I realized that if I had a dollar for every one of those feeding sessions, I’d be swimming in a pool of money like my name was Scrooge McDuck.
(Sure, I can be sentimental but damned if I’m not a pragmatist.)
I then started to think about what it would be like to make money by breastfeeding the babies of other people (ok, rich people), and what the implications would be. What kind of issues one could run into, and what kind of emotional rewards and challenges could exist. What kind of person one would have to be in order to work in this profession–in this day and age–and do it well.
I unhooked Colin, who was on his way to dreamland, placed him bed, and kissed him goodnight.
That very night, I started my outline.
Then, I started to think about how much that could be worth. And I realized that if I had a dollar for every one of those feeding sessions, I’d be swimming in a pool of money like my name was Scrooge McDuck.
(Sure, I can be sentimental but damned if I’m not a pragmatist.)
I then started to think about what it would be like to make money by breastfeeding the babies of other people (ok, rich people), and what the implications would be. What kind of issues one could run into, and what kind of emotional rewards and challenges could exist. What kind of person one would have to be in order to work in this profession–in this day and age–and do it well.
I unhooked Colin, who was on his way to dreamland, placed him bed, and kissed him goodnight.
That very night, I started my outline.
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