Ask the Author: Marlene Pardo Pellicer
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Marlene Pardo Pellicer
There was summer in the 1980s, when I kept hearing the chain link fence and gate surrounding our house rattle at 1 or 2 a.m. I being a teenager, was sitting on the carpet in a dimly lit hallway speaking to a wanna-be-my boyfriend who'd gotten off from his busboy job. First times, I thought it was a cat. Once I started paying attention, I realized the rattle was something much heavier... as in human heavy. I looked out and never caught sight of anything, cat or otherwise. Then I started hearing footsteps walking in the grass around the house, again too heavy for an animal. No trees or shrubs to hide behind, and again in the wee hours of the morning. Twice I woke my mother up, telling her someone was in the yard. No one was ever seen, or footsteps heard running away.
So who was this mysterious midnight visitor? I never found out since we moved out a few months later.
This strange summer could be weaved into so many mysteries, the possibilities are endless.
So who was this mysterious midnight visitor? I never found out since we moved out a few months later.
This strange summer could be weaved into so many mysteries, the possibilities are endless.
Marlene Pardo Pellicer
The Ultimate Evil: The Search for the Sons of Sam by Maury Terry (to start with). What comes afterwards is undecided, so many books, so little time.
Marlene Pardo Pellicer
Around 3 AM, I heard my dog whine and I dropped my hand over the side of the bed to comfort him, and he licked my fingertips sloppily in gratitude. I turned, stretched out and under the blanket my foot met with my dog's sleeping form where he had been all night long.
Marlene Pardo Pellicer
Research on my prior book.
Marlene Pardo Pellicer
Reading and the desire to be a storyteller.
Marlene Pardo Pellicer
murder mystery, true crime about early Miami
Marlene Pardo Pellicer
Simple, write and read. Then enter at least a writing contest where you have to follow certain rules and a deadline, and then keep doing it over and over again.
Marlene Pardo Pellicer
Despite frustration felt throughout any point in the process, it's what you get up early for and have to be reminded to go to sleep because you don't want to be doing anything else.
Marlene Pardo Pellicer
Depending on my deadlines, if I have plenty of time, I'll take off 1 or 2 days and engage in something that has nothing to do with writing or the subject matter, preferably outdoors. This way I won't be seeing the desk I work from reminding me that I have a block.
If I have less time, I know that the human brain works in 55-minute segments, and it's around this time we hit saturation point. So I get up and do something else for at least 30 minutes.
If I have less time, I know that the human brain works in 55-minute segments, and it's around this time we hit saturation point. So I get up and do something else for at least 30 minutes.
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