Ask the Author: Carrow Brown
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Carrow Brown
I woke up and realized two things. It was Monday and there was no coffee.
Carrow Brown
And now fixed. Thank you for bringing it to my attention. <3
Carrow Brown
I can set my own hours and I don't have people breathing down my neck to get stuff done. I'm way more productive with a project and a due date.
Carrow Brown
I wish I could say I spent a lot of time and research with my concept, but the truth is I sat at the keyboard and wrote. What I wrote isn't in the story anymore, but it laid the foundation I needed in order to keep working.
Carrow Brown
I've always been in the habit of writing since I was a teen, but didn't decide to do it professionally until I was 32. Spent two years writing my first book and got it accepted by Eight Little Pages in Nov 2018.
Carrow Brown
Secret stuff, can't talk about it. No, seriously. I had to sign a non-disclosure agreement for one of my projects.
Carrow Brown
If you want to write, go write. Don't care about what people will think of it or worry that the "writing police" will show up to tell you what you can and cannot write. Play, have fun, and don't treat it like work.
Carrow Brown
Writer's block is something I experience when I am stressed and insecure. Typically I never have any issues with writing a story except when my mental state is poor. I combat this by reminding myself that I am doing what I love and reading the reviews people leave to prove others enjoy my work.
Carrow Brown
Ghost is the result of my desire for a strong female lead who gets herself out of her own mess and a debate I had with my husband about how someone who is hundreds of years old would behave. I threw in Norse mythology and Lovecraftian horror for fun and she turned out pretty good.
Silence was not supposed to be a character. He just happened one day after a particularly bad week at work. Originally, he was a brooding magical sword who could only convey feelings but wasn’t chatty or demanding things like stabbings or participation awards. I wasn’t sure if I was going to keep the changes until I took the pages to my writing group for feedback. The group ended up loving Silence and demanded he have a stronger role in the story. A bunch of rewriting later, Silence became a thing.
I can’t talk about Ghost and Silence creation without mentioning Vainya as well. You see, when Silence took shape in my mind, I saw that he was the ID of the human psyche—instincts, desires, wants. Ghost easily fell into the role of the Ego—the part of a person which balances the desires and logic. So who was my Super Ego? Who was the person grounded in logic and moral choices? That became Vainya, Ghost's overseer and Master of the Well of Knowledge. I became very attached to this concept and reworded a lot of the dialogue in my story to reflect this without outright telling everyone what going on. Super nerd moment for me.
Silence was not supposed to be a character. He just happened one day after a particularly bad week at work. Originally, he was a brooding magical sword who could only convey feelings but wasn’t chatty or demanding things like stabbings or participation awards. I wasn’t sure if I was going to keep the changes until I took the pages to my writing group for feedback. The group ended up loving Silence and demanded he have a stronger role in the story. A bunch of rewriting later, Silence became a thing.
I can’t talk about Ghost and Silence creation without mentioning Vainya as well. You see, when Silence took shape in my mind, I saw that he was the ID of the human psyche—instincts, desires, wants. Ghost easily fell into the role of the Ego—the part of a person which balances the desires and logic. So who was my Super Ego? Who was the person grounded in logic and moral choices? That became Vainya, Ghost's overseer and Master of the Well of Knowledge. I became very attached to this concept and reworded a lot of the dialogue in my story to reflect this without outright telling everyone what going on. Super nerd moment for me.
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