Ask the Author: Delores Lowe Friedman
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Delores Lowe Friedman
A Two Sentence Horror Story
I looked into the mirror and saw no image.
As I tried to validate my existence by yelling, I am here, I had no voice.
I looked into the mirror and saw no image.
As I tried to validate my existence by yelling, I am here, I had no voice.
Delores Lowe Friedman
I have had the idea for Wildflowers since college. The idea that time and ife could take friends in different directions is not new. Many books have been written with that theme. What I hoped to bring to the overarching theme was characters with a past and community that readers might not know. I remember thinking that everything I heard about Bed Stuy Brooklyn was negative. I recalled wonderful days, with brownstone stoops, where we played with paper dolls, ate penny candy, and jumped double dutch. It was where the men went for a shine every week to the shoe repair store on Nostrand Avenue. It was a place alive with bustle on Saturdays where fish markets, and butchers had lines of people buying and carrying bundles of food home. The homes the blacks who lived in Bed Stuy came from were not wealthy, but some were not bad off, some struggled, but they all lived together in a community where people looked out for one another. Some homes had heartache but heartache was part of life.
Delores Lowe Friedman
I am currently putting the finishing touches on my novel Wildflowers by going over the copyedited manuscript, approving cover, and planning my marketing strategy. I am much more comfortable writing and being alone with my characters, But as this book is now my baby I must send it off with as much support as I can.
Delores Lowe Friedman
The best thing about being a writer is being alone with characters who you have created, but who reveal themselves to you as if they live apart from you. Then when a reader says, your characters are alive, I can see them, I think, well I captured them as they wished. That is magical feeling.
Delores Lowe Friedman
In fourth grade, my teacher had a library of classics, and she literally revealed them to us by removing a drape, and said, "Now you get to read the good stuff." The books with their red blue and green bindings, with gold lettering on the spines were beautiful. She gave us notebooks to journal our thoughts, and she responded to us -giving our words power. I wrote my first story there, and have found solace and joy in reading and writing since then. As I said in my Acknowledgements, "Thank you Mrs. Klein."
Currently ,I am inspired by overhearing a snippet of dialogue, seeing the trees change color, or flowers spring from green stems. Almost any natural change or interactions between people stimulates in me the idea for a piece of writing. I never have no ideas, Too often I have too many ideas. I have to decide which are most likely good upon which to focus.
Currently ,I am inspired by overhearing a snippet of dialogue, seeing the trees change color, or flowers spring from green stems. Almost any natural change or interactions between people stimulates in me the idea for a piece of writing. I never have no ideas, Too often I have too many ideas. I have to decide which are most likely good upon which to focus.
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