Ask the Author: Angela Morrison
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Angela Morrison
Yes, of course, I dream about that. I used to imagine the soundtracks. Now, I use the music I imagine for a movie soundtrack as I work on a project. I especially think SING ME TO SLEEP would make an amazing movie. What do you think? Which of my books do you think would make a good movie?
Angela Morrison
For me, writing is a spiritual act. Prayer is a vital tool. I ask for a lot of help and direction. I have more ideas for books than I can ever possibly create, so I rely on answers from a higher power to help me decide where to concentrate my efforts.
Angela Morrison
My most recent book, AN OCEAN ATWEEN US, was inspired by my own family heritage. My grandmother and her mother collected family histories and passed them down to my mother. She retold them to me as thrilling bedtime stories complete with howling wolves and a Scottish accent. I inherited so much from them. I took those stories, added lots of research, site visits, imagination, and a healthy dose of romance and brought Will Glover and his family of coal miners who must leave behind all they love when they emigrate to Nova Scotia.
Although it is set in a very different time and place, AN OCEAN ATWEEN US is a passionate, intimate, first-person love story like my contemporary YA novels, SING ME TO SLEEP and the TAKEN BY STORM saga.
Although it is set in a very different time and place, AN OCEAN ATWEEN US is a passionate, intimate, first-person love story like my contemporary YA novels, SING ME TO SLEEP and the TAKEN BY STORM saga.
Angela Morrison
I am marketing a time-slip, post-apcalyptic romance called SLIPPED. I've recently revised it so it's a he-said, she-said like TAKEN BY STORM. The guy, my hottest hero ever, is a rogue, post-nuclear winter time-travelling assassin who is trying to save the future by destroying the past. The girl is an orphan whose mother ran off from her father's estate to marry a Roma horse-trainer in Regency England.
The collide in mid-13th century Europe when she unexpectedly drops in on his plot.
The collide in mid-13th century Europe when she unexpectedly drops in on his plot.
Angela Morrison
Read what you want to write. Write every day. And look for professional mentors. You wouldn't expect a pro-football player to get to the big time without practicing every day his entire life and learning from great coaches. Writing is like anything worth doing professionally. Approach it as a profession. My mentors at VCFA changed my life. I would have never published TAKEN BY STORM without their patient teaching and critique.
Angela Morrison
Readers!! They are a miracle, every one. So much about the publishing business and how writers are treated by publishers is kind of icky. Getting an email from a reader that your book touched their heart makes it all worth it.
Angela Morrison
Sometimes I avoid writer's block altogether by researching and researching and researching and researching.
I do loathe staring at a blank screen. The best way for me around that is to write morning pages as described in THE ARTIST WAY. I keep blank pink paper (white with lines is too intimidating), a pen and a lap desk next to my bed. When I wake up in the morning, I pick up the pen and scribble whatever is in my head. Yes, I write by hand. I actually draft all my books by hand now. This process short-circuits my inner critique and taps into my inner artist and coaxes her out to play.
I recommend working through THE ARTIST WAY (Julia Cameron) to every writer and artist I know.
I do loathe staring at a blank screen. The best way for me around that is to write morning pages as described in THE ARTIST WAY. I keep blank pink paper (white with lines is too intimidating), a pen and a lap desk next to my bed. When I wake up in the morning, I pick up the pen and scribble whatever is in my head. Yes, I write by hand. I actually draft all my books by hand now. This process short-circuits my inner critique and taps into my inner artist and coaxes her out to play.
I recommend working through THE ARTIST WAY (Julia Cameron) to every writer and artist I know.
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