Ask the Author: Rose Von Barnsley
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Rose Von Barnsley
I get idea's from everything. I'll often see something and think, "What if this happened right now? How would these people react?" I often give fake lives and personalities to people I see out in stores. I mentally make up stories about everyone and everything around me. If one seems to keep my attention, it usually becomes a story line.
Rose Von Barnsley
I'm working on about 30 different stories and write on what I feel like when I sit down. Sometimes I want to write funny, so I pull up a funny story. Other times, I want serious, or maybe Victorian or Western. I have story for what ever mood I'm in. It makes it easier to write, since I'm not confined to just one story line.
Rose Von Barnsley
The best thing about being a writer is seeing how the story unfolds. I don't always know what is going to happen myself. It's sometimes shocking and exciting for me to find out what is really going on in a story. I'm just another reader. I just happen to get the story before anyone else, though.
Rose Von Barnsley
If I have writers block, I work on another story. I have about 30 starts to other stories. Sometimes it's best to take a step back and focus on something else for a while and then come back to what you were working on.
Rose Von Barnsley
Let your characters tell the story. I have found when I try and make them do things, the story isn't as good as when the characters I've created take the lead.
Rose Von Barnsley
I get my ideas from stuff around me. I have a very distracted mind and I think I'm probably a bad friend, because I struggle to follow conversations. I'll often see something of think of something when I'm out and about and have a story line run off in my head, making me horrible company to be in.
One time I was out with my husband and he noticed I was being quiet, so he asked me what I was thinking about. Not a good idea, because I was mentally plotting the murder and dismemberment of a character. Luckily, he loves me, disturbing mind and all.
One time I was out with my husband and he noticed I was being quiet, so he asked me what I was thinking about. Not a good idea, because I was mentally plotting the murder and dismemberment of a character. Luckily, he loves me, disturbing mind and all.
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