Ask the Author: Deborah Taylor-French
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Deborah Taylor-French
I sit at our kitchen table, the sun's rays licking our fountain and Fuyu permission tree. The best part of my day comes when I listen to upbeat chants and songs before I start. I write with a pen on three-ring notebook paper. Usually, I use wide-ruled paper because my handwriting needs space, mainly when I write fast.
Deborah Taylor-French
Woah! Stop your horses. Never entertained this idea before. Now I have it. My Uncle Scott and Aunt Norman (Normie to us kids) bought a victorian hotel on the Snake River. My sister and I spent the night there, inside a separate bedroom from our aunt and uncle. We sat alert. Felt terror at each creak and snap as the aged wood settled into a chilly night. Scariest movie of my life.
Deborah Taylor-French
When my daughter was eight and nine years old she began reading a series called, "Girls to the Rescue." One of the true stories recounted how a young girl saved the life of an infant she had been babysitting. The baby lived. But the girl became blind from toxics in the smoke. That story started me with "what if a girl followed her dog to a fire, but couldn't leave because she couldn't let the cats in the barn die.
Deborah Taylor-French
I am revising my second book in my Dog Leader Mystery series. Book two deals with the aftermath of Red Sky at Night: Dog Leader Mysteries. My working title is High Water: DLM but that will change. I wrote the first draft in NaNoWriMo, 50,000 + in a month. Now that I have an addition story to insert and drive the narrative I expect this fresh exciting plot will run like a jet engine.
Deborah Taylor-French
I love being a story-wizard and wordsmith. Storytelling captured me early in life, and I catch myself collecting and telling stories. The easiest part for me is the characters and story.
Deborah Taylor-French
I write Morning Pages. Those pages invite a stream of consciousness mode so I write them fast. Writing fast does not come easy as I wrestled with dyslexia. I wanted to read in grammar school, learning became a huge effort. I love to read and know that looking up words adds to my vocabulary, so reading helps write.
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