Ask the Author: Vicki D. Thomas
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Vicki D. Thomas
As an example, Book I, The Long Dark Cloak, flooded over me after I read the JK Rowling series, Harry Potter. I started writing by hand and wrote for about two years--and there I had my series, ragged as it was. Since that first book has been published, I've written a second book that continues the adventure in the mystical forest.
Vicki D. Thomas
I look at photos and files with excerpts of my writing. These inspire me to continue writing, plotting new and exciting scenes in my mind.
Vicki D. Thomas
A writer has the good fortune of losing themselves in the creative part of their mind and design an awesome world of their own. Nothing quite like it. Everything around them fades away, including their troubles and worries. Only the story and characters get the writer's attention.
Vicki D. Thomas
I'm editing Book II, The Golden Lantern, with my publisher right now. It promises to be an astonishing read (where does all this weird stuff come from, anyway?)
You can count on my protagonist (Ivan Kimble) and his trouble-making beagles to have strange and exciting experiences in the forbidden forest.
You can count on my protagonist (Ivan Kimble) and his trouble-making beagles to have strange and exciting experiences in the forbidden forest.
Vicki D. Thomas
All seven books in this series were written about ten years ago. Very rough, wordy, and incoherent in places. However, the "bones" of the story are there in seven spiral-ringed notebooks. I'm depending on them to guide me through each book. So far, so good.
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