Ask the Author: Andrea Officer
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Andrea Officer
Read! Read books that interest you and write something you want to write.
Andrea Officer
Many of my ideas come from reading books in the genre I write for, or I come across stories online which inspire me and make me ask questions... Mainly how can I turn this into a novel?
Andrea Officer
For "Just Two Strangers In The Crowd" the idea came from a simple plot idea I came across where two young friends choose to go on sixteen dates and see if the dating thing works for them. What I didn't expect was for it to go in the direction it did.
Andrea Officer
I'm currently working on a novel which focuses on a friends-with-benefits situation and how far two people can take it until they start to question how it's making them feel.
Andrea Officer
Creating characters who end up taking your stories in a different direction because they want to do something different to what you had originally planned. Its always surprising.
Andrea Officer
I tend to read fanfiction, which is a guilty pleasure of mine, and it always seems to get my creativity flowing again.
Andrea Officer
She screamed loudly into the night. And someone screamed back.
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