Ask the Author: Jess Lake
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Jess Lake
If I'm having a hard time with whatever project I'm currently working on, I take a break from it and do a quick writing prompt - maybe 10-20 minutes. This has the double effect of helping to get my mind going in a creative direction and has been the inspiration for other stories and novel ideas.
Jess Lake
I'm going to answer this for my short story since it is currently my only published work. The idea came from a combination of a story my grandmother told me about working as a switchboard operator for the National Park Service in Washington state when she was 19 years old and a funny Tumblr post I read about people thinking the trees were screaming before they knew what cicadas were.
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