Ask the Author: Michaele Benedict
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Michaele Benedict
What a great question! I think I'd travel to Paris at the time of the great Impressionist painters and see if I could hang around and take notes while they worked.
Michaele Benedict
Actually, the greatest mystery in my own life was the subject of my non-fiction book SEARCHING FOR ANNA (2008), which tells about the disappearance of my daughter 40-something years ago. I drew heavily on my newspaper experience for my 2014 mystery novel BYLINE. At present I am working on a novel having to do with "faith" healing, not a mystery in the traditional sense, but a subject I find fascinating.
Michaele Benedict
That's an easy one. Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin, from Patrick O'Brian's 20 seagoing books in the Aubrey-Maturin series. From their first encounter, where the prickly Maturin is annoyed at Aubrey's tapping the rhythm at a musical affair, the two characters are so perfectly drawn that the reader seems to know them already.
Michaele Benedict
My very first job was working at a large metropolitan newspaper, and I wanted to use a 1955 newsroom as the background for a mystery novel. The correlation between the Nashville Parthenon, the Parthenon Restaurant and the Parthenon in Athens, Greece, came later.
Michaele Benedict
A non-fiction book called The Thrilling Adventures of Number Eighteen and a novel which deals with faith healing.
Michaele Benedict
Hemingway said something about putting the seat of the pants in the seat of the chair and moving the pen from left to right. Get it down. Don't edit yourself before you begin. Don't make excuses.
Michaele Benedict
I've never had a problem with writer's block. My main problem in writing is keeping up with the mental "dictation." I've even tried a voice-recognition program, but it doesn't work for me. I need to see the words on the computer screen or a piece of paper to organize my thoughts.
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