Ask the Author: Jess Whitby
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Jess Whitby
Someone gave me some excellent advice on if you get stuck on a particular scene in a book. They told me to write it as though it was the day after, it had all happened and the people were responding and reflecting on the previous events.
Other things I do is think about the different senses or I put some music on and "write to the music." Even if what I write is nonsense or garbage, it seems to unblock something.
Other things I do is think about the different senses or I put some music on and "write to the music." Even if what I write is nonsense or garbage, it seems to unblock something.
Jess Whitby
All I have ever wanted to do, from being a small child, is be an author. I remember one day my favourtie Uncle trying to explain to me how I needed to have a more "realistic" ambition. He told me lots of people want to be authors and there was too much competition. My advice would be, don't listen to people who burst your dreams like that. It's true that lots of people want to be authors, but that doesn't mean that you won't be one.
Jess Whitby
I'm working on two things. I'm working on a second novel and I'm working on a short story called "The Witch's House." That's the working title anyway. It's based on the idea that every town has a house that the kids say, "The witch lives there," or "Don't go in there."
Jess Whitby
I thought about what would be really scary or unsettling. When I was about 15 years old, I started to experience the first thing Jude, in Running From Dust, experienced. I would wake up and hear paper falling to the floor in the bedroom. But when I looked, there was no paper there. You might think that's no scary, but when it happens night after night - it starts getting that way!
That leads me to my second fear - the fear of losing my mind. What if you're not sure what is real and what isn't? What if you are trying to hold down a professional job whilst all this is going on?
That leads me to my second fear - the fear of losing my mind. What if you're not sure what is real and what isn't? What if you are trying to hold down a professional job whilst all this is going on?
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