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“Ask me a question.” June Taylor

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June Taylor Well Losing Juliet is loosely based on a road trip I made to France in the eighties. Using that all-important What If ...? question I began to shape the plot asking: 'So what if this happened?' 'What if that happened?'

Life is a mystery in itself, so as long as I continue to ask that What If...? question then there will be always be plots ...
June Taylor From a road trip to France in the late eighties.
June Taylor Good question ... spontaneous ideas, characters, elements of a plot, snippets of dialogue ... all these can pop into my head at any time. Eventually there's a story demanding to be told. You can't fight the urge to write.
June Taylor The sequel to Losing Juliet, another psychological suspense.
June Taylor Make the most of your apprenticeship, however long it needs to be, because this will make you the best writer you can be when the time comes. You don't want to be out there before you're ready.
June Taylor Being able to go anywhere and do anything. Making people do what you want them to do, putting words into their mouths ... all in your head!
June Taylor I beat myself over the head with a cushion then go and make a cup of tea. If still blocked, go for a walk round the local park.

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