Ask the Author: Amanda Reynolds
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Amanda Reynolds
I try not to think of it as writer's block, more as thinking time whilst ideas percolate. Often a walk with the dogs will clear my head and sort out a few ideas. A lot of writing is turning up and getting something on the page, editing is when the good stuff happens.
Amanda Reynolds
Finally finding the thing I really want to do in life.
Amanda Reynolds
Hold your nerve! Tenacity is the key. It probably won't happen overnight, it might take a long time, but if it's what you really want to do then learn from the rejections and keep going.
Amanda Reynolds
I'm working on my next book, but it's too early to reveal anything other than it's not a sequel and it is another psychological suspense.
Amanda Reynolds
I love people watching, and I love language, the way people speak, the meaning and subtext of their words. I also love well written films and dramas which I find very inspirational, as well as other people's books, of course! Writers like Kate Atkinson, Louise Doughty and Kate Hamer.
Amanda Reynolds
Someone I know fell down their stairs and suffered short-term memory loss. Unlike Jo, they fortunately recovered quickly, but for a while they were a stranger in their own world and I thought how scary that must be. 'What if...?' questions started spinning around my head and I thought how awful it would be if, instead of your family helping you to recover those lost memories, they were instead doing everything they could to keep them from you. And why on earth would they want to do that?
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