Ask the Author: Christine Procter
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Christine Procter
If I get a block in a story then it's usually because I'm writing a section that doesn't fit. Drop the idea and work with another approach. If that doesn't help then temporarily go onto another project. Or take the dog out - that usually helps me.
Christine Procter
Creating your own world but then it takes over you.
Christine Procter
Just do it! Try and write a little every day, if your timetable allows then write as much as you can. Everyone has to start somewhere and every author faces a blank page.
Christine Procter
A young adult ghost story set in the Lake District, UK, with a group of teens at an outward bound centre. It's not only the weather that is hostile...
Christine Procter
I enjoy creating stories and situations I'd like to read, then I like to twist them to see what happens. It's entering another world without the need of external devices. Although I wouldn't be without my laptop.
Christine Procter
Believe it or not, it came from a 10 minute exercise on my Creative Writing course. It started out as a paragraph, then grew and grew! The exercise I was given involved an object, a profession and a location. I was given pendant, writer and hotel. That's all it took. Inspiration comes from all sorts of places.
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