Ask the Author: Margo T. Rose
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Margo T. Rose
I am currently reading "The Bell Jar," and I'm planning to finish the "Riddle Master Trilogy." I'd like to read more classics this summer, including "The Giver," "A Tale of Two Cities," and "The Wind in the Willows." I'm also considering re-reading "Fahrenheit 451," a personal favorite. Earlier this year I took an online linguistics course, so I intend to devote some time to reading more on Linguistics, a subject that has long interested me. Because of book box subscriptions I had this last year, I also have a large collection of YA novels, but I haven't decided which ones to start with yet.
Margo T. Rose
Inspiration often comes when I'm not looking for it, and not expecting it. Inspiration comes from events in my life that strongly affect me. Most of my poetry is very emotionally fueled. The people and events in my poetry may not always be true, but the emotions that go with those things almost always are. I am always looking for ways to describe real feelings to real people so perfectly that the reader can feel them too, and not only understand, but feel understood. This is usually easiest at night, or in the wee hours of the morning, when it's quiet, and I'm trying to sleep, and there is nothing else distracting me. If I don't write my ideas down right away, even if they're incomplete, I lose them, and I lose the emotions that go with them, too.
Margo T. Rose
Don't give up. Take a break; try other things. But don't give up. You may not have anything for over a year; you may think you'll never write or even have the beginning of an idea again. But if this is something you want -- if this is something you really want -- do not give up. Make it happen, even if you have to stay up til 4am to self-publish a book you never thought you'd share with the world.
Margo T. Rose
Writing allows you to constantly find new ways to express ideas to people. It's not just about coming up with new ideas no one has seen or heard or felt before; it's about learning to express the old ideas, the things we have all thought and seen and heard and felt, in new ways. Writing is a way to get people to think, to feel, to laugh, to cry, to feel less alone. And, when you realize you have readers, not only is there a bit of pride in knowing you've accomplished those things, but you feel less alone, too. The connection goes both ways.
Margo T. Rose
My recent book was the product of years of work, years of inspiration, from many people and places and things. When I first started Sing Along Blogger, I had no idea I would be putting any of it in a book one day. I didn't even know I'd be putting it into a book a week before I did. But I had a lot of things on my mind that I needed a distraction from, I felt like I wasn't going anywhere or meeting any of my goals, and I'd wanted to be a writer since I was six. I always thought I'd be a novelist, but none of my novels were going anywhere. I suffered from serious writers' block, and I kept avoiding facing the document that was supposed to be my book. Then I finally realized, it wasn't true that I wasn't writing at all; I just needed to realize what it was I was writing; where my best ideas, and work were going. I had literally hundreds of poems. So if that's where my strong point as an author really was, that's what I was going to publish.
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