Ask the Author: Victoria Golden
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Victoria Golden
The Girl with Seven Names, An American Marriage, Pasadena
Victoria Golden
Try out your writing on trusted readers, people who are in the habit of reading the type of writing you're doing. Pay attention to the feedback. This requires some stamina. Let your defenses down and listen to the negative as well as the positive. Then trust your gut and revise according to what makes sense to you.
Victoria Golden
I review and edit what I've written the day before, and that usually slides me forward into new material.
Victoria Golden
Being transported into the world of the book. Time and place disappear in a magical kind of way.
Victoria Golden
A novel based on my experiences assisting a California Probate Referee who often appraised houses where people had recently died.
Victoria Golden
It takes an unusual anecdote, story idea, or character to get me going on a longterm project. If I'm not feeling particularly inspired on a particular day once I'm committed to a project, I sit down at the computer anyway promising myself to spend at least 30 minutes. Even on a day when I'm busy with other things, that often turns into an hour or more.
Victoria Golden
I met William, whose memoir this is, when a friend attending a hospice grief group with him recommended that I record his life story. I knew nothing about the American Orphan Trains at the time and was fascinated by his firsthand account -- and by all the other remarkable adventures he had over his nine decades.
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