Ask the Author: Anne Miller
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Anne Miller
I got the idea for The Last Photograph when I was in college. It was around the time Garth Brooks' The Dance came out, and it got me thinking: what if there was a story about a man who loses his wife suddenly, out of the blue, without any warning? There didn't seem to be a lot of stories out at that time about loss told from a man's point of view, in particular one who was raised to be a "real man" and keep all his emotions inside him.
I also love movies like The Sting and Ocean's Eleven, where twists come at you that you never see coming, and I thought why not try to get inside this man's head and see what he's really thinking and feeling, which I'm sure is every woman's dream, to get inside a man's mind.
I also love movies like The Sting and Ocean's Eleven, where twists come at you that you never see coming, and I thought why not try to get inside this man's head and see what he's really thinking and feeling, which I'm sure is every woman's dream, to get inside a man's mind.
Anne Miller
Writing has always been a part of me. It's who I am. I've always thought even if I never made a dime from my writing I'd still be doing it because it's like breathing to me.
Sometimes ideas just come to me from out of nowhere and I tell myself I have to write this down right now or I know I'm going to forget it. That's the coolest thing: when I'm having trouble writing a certain scene or getting a point across and then all of a sudden it just comes to me, like it was so obvious the entire time.
Sometimes ideas just come to me from out of nowhere and I tell myself I have to write this down right now or I know I'm going to forget it. That's the coolest thing: when I'm having trouble writing a certain scene or getting a point across and then all of a sudden it just comes to me, like it was so obvious the entire time.
Anne Miller
I am currently working on the sequel to The Last Photograph. I am about ten pages or so in, and don't want to say too much because I don't want to spoil anything for anyone who hasn't read The Last Photograph yet.
Anne Miller
Best advice is to never stop writing. Even if you take a break for months or years, always come back to it. The came up with the idea for The Last Photograph when I was about twenty-one or twenty-two, and now here I am nearly twenty years later as a newly published author. Success doesn't happen to everyone at the exact same time; it's different for everybody. There's no real rule book, so just don't ever give up.
Anne Miller
The best thing about being a writer is seeing other people's reactions to my stories. I love being able to get to people's emotions, so I'm thrilled whenever words I've written evoke strong emotions in people. It's kind of surreal too. I can't wrap my brain around the fact that my writing can make people angry or cry. That just floors me!
Anne Miller
I step completely away from whatever I'm writing, because sometimes if I keep pushing myself to write something I know it's not going to be good. And sure enough I'll look back on it the next day or even a couple hours later and hate pretty much everything I wrote. It's better for me to just step away, watch a little tv, or read; anything to take my mind off whatever scene I'm trying to write.
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