Ask the Author: Christine Potter
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Christine Potter
I'm currently drafting Bean 3, the final book in the trilogy about Bean Donohue, time traveler. It's going to involve heroics on her part, and breaking some of the rules she has been taught to respect. It's set two years away from where In Her Own Time (Bean 2) ends, in 1972, with Bean in college.
Christine Potter
In Her Own Time picks up where my first YA time traveler ends. Bean Donohue, my 16-year-old heroine, has a solid boyfriend, a prickly mom who is becoming a tiny bit less prickly--but a whole new set of challenges. What's the difference between falling in love with someone and loving him? And can the kind of time travel Bean has the ability to do actually be dangerous? In Her Own Time is a scarier book than Time Runs Away With Her.
Christine Potter
I usually reread what I've written the day before. I read fast, so that's a good warm up. I tinker with it a bit and try to push forward in the plot as much as I can if I'm writing fiction. If I'm working on poems, I'm revising more than I'm drafting because of the nature of poetry. I tend to do the poetry marathons, crank out 30 poems in a month, and then spend the next year or so refining them.
Christine Potter
I get to relive the parts of my life I like thinking about the most. In my YA fiction, I get to make neat fantasies around them and time travel. In my poetry, I get to sort of catch moments in amber and make the words as perfect as I can. Poetry is sort of the literary tiny house, if you'll forgive me--without, of course, the obligatory composting toilet!! :)
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