Ask the Author: Jenny Barnes Butler
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Jenny Barnes Butler
Scenes. I saw unique, powerful scenes of a story, and began to see how they could tie together and piece a puzzle together.
Jenny Barnes Butler
A free mind inspires me. I think Wordsworth was correct when he defined "art" as the spontaneous overflow of powerful emotion recollected in tranquility. When I feel peace and my heart is quiet and still, the ideas flow and flow.
Jenny Barnes Butler
Book signings are keeping me busy now. From now on, my intention is journal writing. In other words, I don't have a second book on the back burner.
Jenny Barnes Butler
Write in a journal regularly. Write when you don't think you have anything to write. Write and see what comes... if you don't value what you have to say, who will?
Jenny Barnes Butler
One best thing about being a writer is simply the feeling of releasing a thought in my hands. Another is going back and reading something I've written and thinking about whatever the topic is. And, then simply the record one has once something is in black and white, never to be lost.
Jenny Barnes Butler
I wait for the mood. I wait until I'm thinking of things I must put on paper or scream. Also, I have to go to a "place" which is a mental state where I feel free. It helps if the laundry is done and the bills are paid and I've gone for a walk.
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