Ask the Author: J.W. Robitaille
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J.W. Robitaille
I was inspired by the Me Too movement to ask what could be done to help high school girls resist the peer pressure to present themselves as sexual objects.
J.W. Robitaille
I'm inspired by issues and problems that my characters need to solve.
J.W. Robitaille
I'm working on my fourth Cory Marin detective novel, Consequences.
I'm also putting the finishing touches on a new YA dystopia series that is hopeful, political, environmental, and feminist.
I'm also putting the finishing touches on a new YA dystopia series that is hopeful, political, environmental, and feminist.
J.W. Robitaille
Write every day or as much as you possibly can. Try dictation on your phone if you don't have time to sit and write. I often dictate when I'm walking.
Don't worry about being perfect. Stat with a scene and go from there. Get a draft down on paper and then try to improve it every time you sit down to write.
Don't worry about being perfect. Stat with a scene and go from there. Get a draft down on paper and then try to improve it every time you sit down to write.
J.W. Robitaille
You get to live in your imagination, create worlds, and determine what you do every day. It doesn't get any better than that.
J.W. Robitaille
Mostly, I ignore it. If I can't connect with my material one day, I move to something else or try a different approach. The thing is to keep working and circling your material one way or another. Try writing the scene a different way, imagining it as a movie, writing it from a different perspective. Just keep probing and thinking about it, and eventually it will come.
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