Ask the Author: Sherilyn Powers
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Sherilyn Powers
Hi Richard,
I sent you a private message where to send it to. :-)
Sherilyn
I sent you a private message where to send it to. :-)
Sherilyn
Sherilyn Powers
Currently I'm working on... learning all about social media. I have managed to avoid it for years, and now I find I must give in.
Sherilyn Powers
For non-fiction, I do more research. That stimulates ideas and gets me going again.
For fiction, however, I find that I get writer's block when I try to make my characters do what I think they should do to follow my outline instead of letting them tell the story. When I ask them what they want to do, the story unfolds in amazing ways, and I am just the recorder of events.
For fiction, however, I find that I get writer's block when I try to make my characters do what I think they should do to follow my outline instead of letting them tell the story. When I ask them what they want to do, the story unfolds in amazing ways, and I am just the recorder of events.
Sherilyn Powers
The excitement. Being a writer is a rollercoaster ride of joy and frustration, fear and confidence, love and hate (of your book, your characters, your computer or pens) - but all of that is excitement.
Sherilyn Powers
Write for yourself. Write because you have to put something down on "paper", not because it will make you rich someday. Mostly it doesn't!
Sherilyn Powers
It is just there. I have always been happiest (and at my most miserable!) when I'm writing. Since the age of 12, I knew I was going to publish a book one day, I just always thought it would be fantasy.
Sherilyn Powers
The main impetus was watching a family member, "Julie", going from happy-go-lucky to suicidal in under an hour with no discernible cause. Up until then I was just dabbling with ideas. From that day forward, I needed to know "why".
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