Ask the Author: Molly Storm
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Molly Storm
Sarah J Maas' Terrasen post-KoA, or her Velaris, and honestly, I'd be chilling. Like just living life as a writer or something.
Molly Storm
Demi-Fae is in the revising stage, so I'll definitely be reading that. But also A Song of Wraiths and Ruin is up there, and The Wrath and The Dawn. I also want to finish at least two non-fiction books, including How To Be An Antiracist.
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A novel called Fallen Sister.
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Finish the book BEFORE you start to edit.
Molly Storm
Making author friends and coming up with ideas together. Or helping each other out with projects, even if we're not collabing, I want to hear everyone's favourite ideas!!
Molly Storm
Oof... I really don't deal with writer's block well. I'll either ignore my manuscript for a week, or I sit with it open in front of me and stare it down, writing and deleting, writing and deleting over and over again. Then there're the days where I get distracted by Facebook, or Goodreads... and I don't write then either. I think the writing and deleting days are the better way of dealing with the blocks — at least they're arguably productive!
Molly Storm
I knew I wanted to write a novel about faeries. I started getting vague ideas about how I wanted to write a story like a traditional faerie tale; one where someone gets kidnapped and then rescued by a daring friend. Then I was doing an unrelated character building exercise about a female mechanic and things started to come together. Suddenly my mechanic was diving into Arcadia, steel-toe-capped boots and all, rescuing her girlfriend from faeries!
Molly Storm
I've been asked this a couple of times and I always feel like my answer is too mundane. There are two parts to the answer:
1) It was never meant to be the final title — it was a placeholder so I could create a project on the NaNoWriMo site.
2) It's the surname of the main character in the book — Malena. The honest truth is that I wanted the bloodline to be carried through the male side of the family so I was looking through a list of Victorian era surnames and saw 'Nancarrow' (two 'r's in the original). I saw it and I knew that was the one I needed. But then when I was writing/creating the family tree, I realised that it was the female line that the bloodline was passed down through so Nancarow became Mal's father's surname. Greg doesn't feature hugely in the final version of Nancarow but he had a much bigger part in the first draft. Sorry Greg!
1) It was never meant to be the final title — it was a placeholder so I could create a project on the NaNoWriMo site.
2) It's the surname of the main character in the book — Malena. The honest truth is that I wanted the bloodline to be carried through the male side of the family so I was looking through a list of Victorian era surnames and saw 'Nancarrow' (two 'r's in the original). I saw it and I knew that was the one I needed. But then when I was writing/creating the family tree, I realised that it was the female line that the bloodline was passed down through so Nancarow became Mal's father's surname. Greg doesn't feature hugely in the final version of Nancarow but he had a much bigger part in the first draft. Sorry Greg!
Molly Storm
Sometimes, it just happens! I'll be going about my day and then I'll get a flash and I have to write!
Other days, usually when I know I need to write something, it can feel like every word is a slog.
I have my most productive writing time in a little cafe bar in my hometown. For some reason, I only used to go there during NaNoWriMo - these days I'm there every week!
Other days, usually when I know I need to write something, it can feel like every word is a slog.
I have my most productive writing time in a little cafe bar in my hometown. For some reason, I only used to go there during NaNoWriMo - these days I'm there every week!
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