Ask the Author: Kathy Stinson
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Kathy Stinson
milk and honey - rupi kaur
Company Town - Madeline Ashby
Orphan Train - Christina Baker Kline
A God in Ruins - Kate Atkinson
Ripper - Isabelle Allende
A Change of Climate - Hilary Mantel
They Fight Like Soldiers They Die Like Children - Romeo Dallaire
That should get me started anyway.
Company Town - Madeline Ashby
Orphan Train - Christina Baker Kline
A God in Ruins - Kate Atkinson
Ripper - Isabelle Allende
A Change of Climate - Hilary Mantel
They Fight Like Soldiers They Die Like Children - Romeo Dallaire
That should get me started anyway.
Kathy Stinson
Too hard a question if I consider all the books I've read, so limiting myself to my own books, I'll say Daniel and Ruby in the novel, BECOMING RUBY, because their relationship takes me back to when I was 15 years old and in love. I also really like Harry and Walter, in the picture book HARRY AND WALTER -- not a 'couple' in the usual sense but it's a pretty great friendship just the same.
Kathy Stinson
One thing that's difficult that is also quite fun is paring down the text to the story's essentials. I'll agonize over every sentence, every word, and often end up taking out a sentence I've agonized over the most. But I'd say the most difficult thing for me is nailing the ending. I want the reader to know for sure that they've come to the last page and be left feeling emotionally satisfied.
Kathy Stinson
Two projects.
1. Another picture book, a companion of sorts to THE MAN WITH THE VIOLIN. It's based on an experience Joshua Bell had when he was a child.
2. My first adult novel that I haven't yet figured out how to describe succinctly which means I still have lots of work to do there!
1. Another picture book, a companion of sorts to THE MAN WITH THE VIOLIN. It's based on an experience Joshua Bell had when he was a child.
2. My first adult novel that I haven't yet figured out how to describe succinctly which means I still have lots of work to do there!
Kathy Stinson
Two things inspire me to write.
1. Being so engrossed in a project that I'm just in it all the time so I don't actually need to get inspired at all to sit down to write. My characters pull me to my desk. It helps if I have a specific task in mine, like 'explore ways you could make things tougher for this character' or 'take another run at the story's ending'.
2. Keeping so busy with other things that I get frustrated to NOT be writing. When I actually have a few hours when I CAN get to my writing, I'm eager to get down to it.
(Sorry, dear reader, for having somehow overlooked this question for so long.)
1. Being so engrossed in a project that I'm just in it all the time so I don't actually need to get inspired at all to sit down to write. My characters pull me to my desk. It helps if I have a specific task in mine, like 'explore ways you could make things tougher for this character' or 'take another run at the story's ending'.
2. Keeping so busy with other things that I get frustrated to NOT be writing. When I actually have a few hours when I CAN get to my writing, I'm eager to get down to it.
(Sorry, dear reader, for having somehow overlooked this question for so long.)
Kathy Stinson
As soon as I finished reading Gene Weingarten’s Pulitzer Prize winning story, “Pearls Before Breakfast” about an experiment conducted by the Washington Post in 2007, in which virtuoso violinist, Joshua Bell, played in a subway station dressed as an ordinary street musician, I knew I had to tell the story as a child might have experienced it.
Kathy Stinson
Above all, read. Read lots. Read widely. And write.
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