Ask the Author: Kathleen M. Jacobs
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Kathleen M. Jacobs
Jay Gatsby and Daisy Buchanan. Nick: "You can't repeat the past." Gatsby: "Why of course you can." The idealism, though destructive, is compelling.
Kathleen M. Jacobs
I try very hard -- very hard -- to walk away, knowing that it will go on its merry way, eventually. I try not to wrestle with it, because if I do, it will always win. So, I give it its time, and then I return to what I need to do, which is write. Simply write.
Kathleen M. Jacobs
That moment -- and it will come -- when you feel in the depths of your soul that something magical is happening.
Kathleen M. Jacobs
I always return to the advice that Harper Lee gave to my creative writing students many years ago, in a letter that she wrote to me responding to my request to provide writing advice for my students: "Don't fall in love with what you write to the extent that you cannot edit it."
Kathleen M. Jacobs
I am currently working on a novel for the middle grade audience -- a mystery that I haven't yet solved and probably won't. The story will solve the mystery -- eventually. At some point, the story takes over and begins to write itself. I think that is when you know it's working.
Kathleen M. Jacobs
When an idea doesn't allow me to walk away from it -- it just keeps resurfacing until I have no other choice but to put pencil to paper, which is always what I do first, before turning on my laptop.
Kathleen M. Jacobs
The idea for Honeysuckle Holiday has been germinating for at least the past ten years, and came from an encounter I remember having with the black lady who looked after me and my two sisters when we were very young. I had recited a "chant" to her that I had learned from my aunt, and I recall that afterwards, I felt an uncomfortable shiver run down my spine, but I didn't know why it scared me so.
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