Ask the Author: Nancy Kreml
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Nancy Kreml
It's like playing with dolls when you were a child--you get to create a world that works the way you want it to work, and you get to make the people you want, and you can have them do whatever you want! Power, that's what writing gives you...
Nancy Kreml
I hate it when people say that the way to deal with writer's block is to write--but it's the truth. Even if you write crap, for a long time, at least you're writing. And down somewhere in your brain, the idea machine responds to the activity going on, and eventually you get an idea for writing something you do like. It also helps to set a specific time to write--every day is best, but once a week is better than not at all. And meeting a friend to write can help you keep that time focused on writing, if you go somewhere with no internet and if both of you commit to no talking, just writing, for a couple of hours.
Nancy Kreml
I'm writing a sequel to The Dying Tide, which will be the second book in the Dead in the Water series, set in the same place with Gen and Cammie once again confronting threats to their lives, and this time, also coping with a threat from nature. This book is tentatively titled An Air That Kills. Also in draft form, but soon to be readable, are two novels that reach into the past. One is a twist on a famous local ghost's history, and the other looks at what might have happened if the South had won the Civil War (hint: things didn't turn out so well...)
Nancy Kreml
I'll see something--a place, often--and want to hold on to it and share it. Each of us gets to have some fascinating unique experiences, and I always want to know about other people's encounters with life and let them know about mine.
Nancy Kreml
Spending time on the tidal creek on the SC coast made want to share the beauty of that mysterious and fragile place in a story that tied in the various kinds of people who live there. I can't really live there myself right now, but I love showing what that life could be. More specifically, I saw the places where the marsh was beginning to show damage, and I wanted to imagine a world where the problem could be solved.
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