Ask the Author: Sienna Carr
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Sienna Carr
It was when she looked through the drawer for the kitty shaped cookie cutter that she found the bloody finger.
Sienna Carr
I push past it. If the scene I'm currently writing is hard ie because the words aren't flowing as I want them to, I find another scene to write. Or I think of some dialog, or a situation my characters might be in, and I write that.
It's often just a case of pushing past the blockage.
It's often just a case of pushing past the blockage.
Sienna Carr
I get to make stuff up!
Sienna Carr
Decide to write, write, edit and make it the best you can. Send it to an editor and beta readers and proofreaders etc, but your best gauge of the story will be readers. So, get it out there, and see what the readers tell you.
Sienna Carr
I've outlined Books 5, 6 & 7 of the Starling Bay books.
Sienna Carr
I'm not always inspired - but I start with a seed of an idea, a character, with a flaw, and they want something - and then I outline conflicts and friends and mentors, and backstory, and I just out pen to paper and make a start.
Sienna Carr
My Starling Bay books are set in a small coastal town full of memorable characters and places (at least, that was my intention). Once I got over writing the first book, Winter's Kiss, the next few books easily followed, because I wrote about the hero's friends. From that point on, once Book 3 was written (Love Letters) I plotted out another 4 books. So, each book gives me ideas for subsequent books.
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