Ask the Author: J. Craig Rice
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J. Craig Rice
Ok, here is the best way I can answer that one. The Wright Life will be followed by the next novel The Wright Question, working on it, progress is going much slower than I like, I still work a day job with family. The Wright Life: Carmen's Struggle is about the character Carmen before she is introduced in The Wright Life, it is a short story giving her history and where it ends, is the exact point where she joins the cast of The Wright Life. The Wright Life: Lisa Coleman's story is the exact same concept, it is Lisa's life and perspective before she joins the Cast of The Wright Life and ends at the exact moment she joins the story of The Wright LIfe. So really they can be read in any order as they are available now, they are just different views from the different characters leading into the The Wright Life. All three books are written first person, The Wright Life, Jim's perspective, Lisa's Coleman's Story, from Lisa's perspective and Carmen's Struggle Carmen's perspective. The Wright Question is a continuation of Jim's perspective. I have a future planned book for the perspective of a character named Debbie, but I won't write that one until after The Wright Question is finished because I don't want to give away her importance to early.
J. Craig Rice
Luckily so far I haven't had much problem with this, but on the few occasions I didn't feel the story flowing the way I wanted, I would step back, read a book, watch tv, or anything else to give my mind a moment to reset.
J. Craig Rice
Wow! Being a writer or an author is like being a deity. The world is my creation, it comes from my heart and mind. Other than my kids there is nothing that I love more than writing. I tend to look at writing as a job that I love, but if I didn't love it, I wouldn't do it. Write because you feel the story in you. Share who you are with the world.
J. Craig Rice
Write. If you feel a story, then write it, it doesn't matter if it is good or bad, because if you don't get the story out, then you can't share that part of who you are. Accept that what you write won't be liked by everyone and that not enough people in the world read books. But if what you write brings joy to one person, then you have done a good job.
J. Craig Rice
I'm currently working on the second book for the Two Wrights and a Wrong series titled The Wright Question.
J. Craig Rice
My inspiration is the same as breathing. If I'm not writing, I'm reading. I don't ever stop thinking about what I want to write. When I'm at work half my energy is on getting the job done, the other half is running over what I have written so far and where I want to take it.
J. Craig Rice
I wish I had an actual answer to that. I started with a basic idea that just came to me one morning and wrote my first paragraph that turned into my first chapter. I know most writers come up with an idea and plan it out. I've tried to do that and have never been successful. So I start writing and let the characters develop. As they develop the idea for the story either develops or dies. I'm never afraid of going back and re-writing an earlier chapter to flow into something I wrote later on in the story.
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