Ask the Author: Wanda Adams Fischer
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Wanda Adams Fischer
The best way for me to deal with writer's block is to read. When I was working full-time and also doing a radio show (which I still do) part-time, I had very little time to read. Now I have some spare time to read other good writing, and that can help unlock ideas that live in the back parts of my brain when I have writer's block.
Wanda Adams Fischer
The best thing about being a writer, for me, is being a storyteller. My heritage is Irish, and we Irish have a reputation for being tellers of tall tales. I love to tell good stories, whether they're fiction or non-fiction.
Wanda Adams Fischer
Find a place and way you're comfortable writing and do it. Sometimes, when I'm being interrupted by environmental factors, I go to the library to write. Also, consider participating in NaNoWriMo, in November of every year, during which time writers seek to write 50,000 words in one month. Writers get together and work on meeting that goal. If you can get those first 50,000 words in one month, you're on your way--that is, if writing a book is your goal.
Wanda Adams Fischer
I'm working on a sequel to my first novel, "Empty Seats," as well as a "spin-off" to the book, which is a novel about the grandmother of one of the characters in "Empty Seats." She was a suffragist, and I'm doing research on that movement in Georgia, which is how I created that character in the first book.
Wanda Adams Fischer
I simply love to write and have since I was in the first or second grade. Events around me, as well as memories from my life that come back to me on a daily basis, provide inspiration, as well as historical events.
Wanda Adams Fischer
I have been a baseball fan since I was not quite eight years old. At one time, about eight years ago, I sang the National Anthem at a minor league baseball park in my area. As I was walking out onto the field, I saw these young faces in the home dugout, and I thought, "Wow, it must be hard for those young guys to be far away from home, without their parents and friends," to try to compete to make it to the next level of baseball." These are guys who had been stars in their respective home towns, and most of them won't ever make it to Major League Baseball. That's what planted the first seed.
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