Ask the Author: Sara O. Thompson
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Sara O. Thompson
This is tough. I think Wonderland would be my first choice and then perhaps China Mieville's Un Lun Dun.
Sara O. Thompson
I've just started Anne Rice's Mayfair Witches book. I also have a bunch of other witch-themed/related books in my Amazon wish list. Plus whatever my book clubs read.
Sara O. Thompson
Fermina Daza and Florentino Ariza of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's "Love in the Time of Cholera." They start out as childhood sweethearts, but in a Shakespearian move, her father whisks her away from Florentino because Father thinks his daughter is too good for lowly Florentino. I won't spoil the rest of the book, but I think it's one of the most romantic stories I've ever read.
Sara O. Thompson
I don't get "inspired" so much as I steal. I steal like a crow in a field of shiny baubles. My eyes and ears are always open to snippets of dialogue, interesting ideas, stories of the strange.
Sara O. Thompson
Book 2 of the Otherwhere series. It's about military veterans who are dying mysteriously.
Sara O. Thompson
Do your homework. That means, read up on the industry, read in your genre, practice writing. And decide what you want from this. Is this a hobby? A jobby (combo hobby and job - I just made that word up but you can use it)? A full-time balls-to-the-wall career? The beauty of the modern publishing world is that there is room for everybody's dreams.
Sara O. Thompson
I'm enjoying putting little Easter eggs in the manuscript. I put my friend's names in there, or I use mutated versions of people I'm holding grudges against and those characters usually die.
Sara O. Thompson
I write through it. Just keep putting words on the page. Make a mess. Clean it up later.
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