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How do you get inspired to write?
Shervin Jamali The best source of inspiration for writing is reading! But my children inspire me a great deal too.
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What’s your advice for aspiring writers?
Shervin Jamali First and foremost: WRITE! Then find other writers to build relationships with. Read their work, encourage them and write reviews. They will do the same for you. This is a tough gig; you need all the support you can get!
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Whom do you contend uses the semi-colon incorrectly? It is a versatile form of punctuation, as evidenced by our built-in grammar software on our computers. I've used it and gotten the green highlight, whereby I immediately pulled out my "Writers Inc." book for reference only to find that it could be used or not without compromising the integrity of the sentence.
Shervin Jamali What an unusual, yet thoroughly wonderful question, Maria! A semi-colon is used to separate two or more ideas in a sentence, giving them equal rank. It is versatile indeed, as you mentioned, and no one can really argue that it can or can't just as easily be replaced by a period (as you've also alluded to). My take on it being used incorrectly, is when the two ideas or independent clauses, have no bearing on one another. But what is most important is that regardless, it's still winking at you! ;)
Thanks for your question!
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What are you currently working on?
Shervin Jamali The sequel to "The Devil's Lieutenant," as well as completing the rewrite for my new book, "Redemption."
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Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?
Shervin Jamali I asked myself the following question: what would you do if something happened to your family? The thought scared the hell out of me, so I created a protagonist that would go through it for me, so that I wouldn't have to.
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