Ask the Author: Corlet Dawn
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Corlet Dawn
How my parents came up with my name 😂.
Corlet Dawn
I have an ongoing list that I update regularly. Right now, I would say there are around 300 on it. Someday I hope to finish even a fraction of them all.
Corlet Dawn
The world of Harry Potter. Who wouldn't want to live at Hogwarts?!
Corlet Dawn
Had he known that death had been lurking behind him all day, intermittently reaching out with bony fingers to brush at him, he would have made each second count. He knew from the hairs on the back of his neck that there was something off about today, he didn't realize until it was too late that a monster was hunting him.
Corlet Dawn
I use some stories from my life, with permission of course, or I start a story and see how it plays out.
Corlet Dawn
Getting to tell a story anyway you want to tell it. If you don’t like the story you can change it at any point in time. It is a very vulnerable thing to do and that is the hardest to get past.
Corlet Dawn
Figuring out which characters to use for my next Bee’s Flowers spin-off.
Corlet Dawn
Give yourself a goal for an amount of time to spend writing each week and track it. If you write a page a day, eventually that becomes a novel.
Corlet Dawn
I sometimes have to walk away, complete a different activity and come back to it. It also helps to re-read over and over again and see what new ideas and concepts come up.
Corlet Dawn
It is a concept that has been inside my mind for over a decade. I attempted to write something similar many years ago and it just fizzled. I thought about revamping it was a cast of people and younger characters and ideas just kept coming.
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