Ask the Author: Lynn Hesse
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Lynn Hesse
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On Halloween my best friend and I sat on the stone wall dividing old town from the church's cemetery and watched the sun go down and vanish, replaced by the moon. The wind picked up and grabbed at the skirts hanging below our knees. Barbara saw them first, the headlamps bobbing in the darkness and then the six solemn men from the mines passed—one by one in a straight line with pickaxes over their shoulders—leaving the smell of coal dust in the cold evening air.
On Halloween my best friend and I sat on the stone wall dividing old town from the church's cemetery and watched the sun go down and vanish, replaced by the moon. The wind picked up and grabbed at the skirts hanging below our knees. Barbara saw them first, the headlamps bobbing in the darkness and then the six solemn men from the mines passed—one by one in a straight line with pickaxes over their shoulders—leaving the smell of coal dust in the cold evening air.
Lynn Hesse
I would live in the treetops and be a tree dweller. "Be a swinger of birches," as the Robert Frost poem "Birches" relates.
Lynn Hesse
I am investigating science fiction writers, mainly short stories, and mysteries by black female authors, but I read historical fiction too. "Where The World Ends" by Geraldine McCaughrean is a young-adult novel survival story based on the true story of a hunting party of 9 boys and 3 Scottish men from St. Kilda who were abandoned on a small rocky island when their village was hit by a pandemic. Think "Lord of the Flies" with less violence and poetic writing.
Lynn Hesse
Character who speak to me. Creating and living in a world I bring to life on paper is deeply satisfying.
Lynn Hesse
I have wondered why I knew things as a young child that were outside of my range of experience.
Lynn Hesse
I journal, meditate, and dance when personal problems or turning points in my life make it necessary to regroup. Then butt in chair is necessary to write every day. Show up. I don't worry about the word count.
Lynn Hesse
I have two manuscripts finished. "A Matter of Respect," the sequel for "Well of Rage" and a novella, an art heist by con artists set in Atlanta, GA. I've returned to a dusty historical fiction mss set in the Boston Mountains in Arkansas in 1800s with a midwife protagonist and started a YA Science Fiction project to entertain my grandson during the pandemic. Excerpts from the project can be seen on my Facebook Author's page facebook.com/lynnhesse2
Lynn Hesse
I have at least two in-progress manuscripts going at the same time. I work on the one that's talking to me and let the other one be for a few days. I believe the inspiration will return. Sometimes I need to think about a character's best day to understand the motivation for their worst day. Let the plot jell in my mind.
Lynn Hesse
When you receive a rejection and it pulls you down, if your concentration wains, give yourself two days, rest, relax, and then get back to it. Write.
Lynn Hesse
"Another Kind of Hero" My mother told me a true story about a biker who stopped at the end of Wed. night Bible study at Marvin Methodist Church off Johnstonville Rd. in Forsyth. He asked if he and his girlfriend, a black truck driver, would be welcome in the community. Dewey Blackmon, my DEA agent character, and his girlfriend, Cora Justin DuPont, grew from there. The sisters, Helen and Mavis, the Kendall sisters, grew from my experience as a sister. We 're so different and yet the same in many ways. We are loyal and watch out for each other and so are the Kendall sisters.
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