Ask the Author: Robin Elizabeth Kobayashi
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Robin Elizabeth Kobayashi
I am not sure, but sometimes I wonder if it's an accumulation of ideas, thoughts, desires, etc. from my entire lifetime and they all spilled out into the story. Over a year ago, I was ill and watching reruns of Gilligan's Island, and I couldn't stop laughing. Then I started to write comedy sketches of the Pride and Prejudice characters. My friends gave me feedback on it, and so I dug deeper into the characters and did intense research to write something more serious, yet humorous.
Robin Elizabeth Kobayashi
I watch films, read books, go see an exhibition at the museum, etc. because there is always something there, even if it's a small thing, that will inspire me.
Robin Elizabeth Kobayashi
Sleep is always good because many of my ideas come from my dreams.
Robin Elizabeth Kobayashi
To me, it's being able to control the outcome of your characters' lives and to create a beautiful, crazy world for them. And if I make a mistake in sketching out a character, I can always do a 180 and change direction.
Robin Elizabeth Kobayashi
Just do it! So many people I know are talented writers and they can't put pen to paper (or, rather, their fingers to the keyboard). I write lousy first drafts and then revise, revise, revise, layer, layer, layer.
Robin Elizabeth Kobayashi
I am working on two things at the same time: (1) Book Two of Freedom & Mirth; and (2) short, short stories for a collection titled I, Sofia-Elisabete: Love Child of Colonel Fitzwilliam. I have been posting some of these shorts on the Derbyshire Writers' Guild for feedback from readers.
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