Ask the Author: Heather Cumiskey
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Heather Cumiskey
Don't stress about it. Get up and take a break or write something outside of your book like a blog or article. I find working on other writing helps with your creative writing. Also, reading is a great way to loosen up your mind and relax your inner muse.
Heather Cumiskey
I love putting words in people's mouths. Dialogue is so fun. I also enjoy sitting down at the computer and being surprised by what happens to the characters. Anything can happen when you write.
Heather Cumiskey
Just sit down and do it. Don't wait for inspiration to strike. Make mistakes, create that sloppy first draft. Quiet your inner critic and just write! You can only get better by doing.
Heather Cumiskey
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Heather Cumiskey
Every day is different. Whether I'm in the mood or not, I carve out the time to write. Hardest part is starting. But I found once I'm in, there's no other place I'd rather be. I truly love it.
Heather Cumiskey
I began reflecting on a writing assignment I had submitted in Summer 2014 with Gotham Writers in New York City. The class was presented the writing prompt: I began to question the wisdom of this trip . . .
Because travel stories don't really interest me, I wrote a short piece about a girl who takes LSD by herself in her family’s basement and experiences horrors upon horrors.
Months later the story of the LSD-taking teen pulled at me. So my questions expanded. Why is this girl alone in her basement taking LSD for the first time? Where are her friends, her parents? What led her to do such a thing? What happened to her? What’s her family life like? Slowly these threads began the novel: I Like You Like This.
Because travel stories don't really interest me, I wrote a short piece about a girl who takes LSD by herself in her family’s basement and experiences horrors upon horrors.
Months later the story of the LSD-taking teen pulled at me. So my questions expanded. Why is this girl alone in her basement taking LSD for the first time? Where are her friends, her parents? What led her to do such a thing? What happened to her? What’s her family life like? Slowly these threads began the novel: I Like You Like This.
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