Ask the Author: Anne Padgett
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Anne Padgett
Slowly. Ideas come to me all the time and sometimes they are persistent enough that I can't forget them. Those ones I write down and think about for a long time- months, even years. I have a notebook where I keep research and objects that relate that story idea. When its "cooked" enough, I start writing my outline and map out the book. I wish I could be like Steven King and write a new book every month. But, that is not my process.
Anne Padgett
Being a writer helps you see purpose in all your experiences and emotions. My daughter who is an enthusiastic young writer had a migraine headache yesterday. She is only 14 and never had one previously. While it was very unpleasant as she started to feel better, she told me about how she was going to write about one of her characters who now has migraines. She knew exactly how to write about it.
Anne Padgett
Keep writing! Enjoy the creative process and never worry if it is good enough for someone else. You have a unique voice and point of view. Write because it brings you joy and you have something to say.
Anne Padgett
The one I'm working on right now is based on family history. We had always heard that we had a great, great, great grandfather who fought with George Washington. We later learned that it was more accurate to say he was captured by George Washington. But, somehow ended up marrying the sister of one of the colonial soldiers and settling in America.
Anne Padgett
My new book is entitled "The Hessian Prisoner" and is based on a true story about a Hessian soldier captured by George Washington during the Battle of Trenton. Like my last book, this one is a historical romance and is told through multiple narrators. Hopefully, I will still be able to visit the battle sites and Valley Forge this summer as my "research vacation".
Anne Padgett
Writer's block can only be conquered by writing. I force myself to write-- aimless sentences at first. This is a log jam that must be forced by getting the water flowing again. We get blocked because we are thinking too hard or trying to be too clever. A great teacher told me that there was no such thing as good writing just good re-writing. So I start writing and stop judging. Soon the block is gone.
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