Ask the Author: K.S. Trenten
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K.S. Trenten
Who was I? Who am I now?
K.S. Trenten
Take a break, listen to music, do something to try to shake the block loose. Sit down and start writing about being blocked, what I'd like to write, and why I can't. This usually at least gets me going.
K.S. Trenten
Creating my own stories and characters, feeling like I'm part of the whole creative process of adding to the trove of stories available for readers as greedy and fussy as myself. :)
K.S. Trenten
Don't give up. Keep writing, no matter how bad you think you are. Even if you're not being too hard on yourself, you *will* improve, if you keep at it.
K.S. Trenten
Many things! Right now I'm right in the middle of BloggingFromAZ: Character Change, where a character will be appearing at each Cauldron. I'm also going to be doing Camp NaNoWriMo, where Quartz has let me know in no uncertain terms I'm writing his story. ;)
K.S. Trenten
Music, reading other people's stories or watching them, letting my reactions mull around in my head, and jotting down ideas, allowing them to blossom into scenes. Afterwards I turn the scenes into stories.
K.S. Trenten
It was inspired by the very first story I wrote when I was eleven years old. I decided to resurrect it, polishing it up in a new form.
K.S. Trenten
Not only my summer reading list, but my bucket list are Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles again. I want to read them slowly, savoring them, detecting exactly what made them so special to me, what lessons I can learn from them in crafting my own stories.
K.S. Trenten
I'd go the Land of Oz and simply hang out in the Emerald City.
K.S. Trenten
He turned away from his reflection, but it followed him in every mirror, every polished surface, smiling with teeth of broken shards. It already owned his face and body, it was only a matter of time before it consumed the rest of him.
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