Ask the Author: Clare Urbanski
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Clare Urbanski
The most random things. It's always characters that come to me before anything else. Once I had thirty seconds alone on a skating rink, and I imagined a girl skating alone at night, and I wondered why she was doing that, and I decided she was trying to keep her mind off of something upsetting, and thus Prince Niru was born.
Clare Urbanski
I've had a lot of people tell me they want to write but "don't have time," to which I usually respond that if you don't now, you never will. Really, no one ever "has time" to write until they're sitting pretty on mega-bestsellers, which generally doesn't happen until you're middle-aged or older. Don't wait. Make time.
Clare Urbanski
I guess that'd be the last Queen of Spades installment, but I've been working on the trilogy for almost ten years now! I got the idea all the way back in middle school when I was first learning to play poker and discovered the superstition behind the Queen of Spades. I immediately wanted her to be a villain. You can pry my eighth-grade manuscripts from my cold, dead fingers, though.
Clare Urbanski
Way too many things. Although I'm totally in love with the WIP I just finished the rough draft of (does that still count as a WIP?), "Hatred with a Face," and I can hardly stop myself from editing it!
Clare Urbanski
1. What I usually do is I have my main project in one folder and all my new rogue ideas in another folder, and if I get writer's block on my main project I "cheat" on it with another project. I'll usually find something to work on.
2. Another option is to just sort of babble to myself in my notebook and develop some history/lore/character backstories. Usually something gives me a cool idea I want to incorporate.
3. I've also found that procrastinating other things, like work I'm actually supposed to be doing, is terrific inspiration!
2. Another option is to just sort of babble to myself in my notebook and develop some history/lore/character backstories. Usually something gives me a cool idea I want to incorporate.
3. I've also found that procrastinating other things, like work I'm actually supposed to be doing, is terrific inspiration!
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