Ask the Author: Cate Nielson Raye
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Cate Nielson Raye
Why I keep buying books when I have an ever growing TBR, I'm editing one project, writing 3 others, have a full time job, and a 2 year old that only wants me to play YouTube videos if he sees me on the computer...
Cate Nielson Raye
If I Never Met You, The Flat Share
Cate Nielson Raye
It was actually a dream that hung around long after I had woken up. I made a note of it in my iPhone notes app and ignored it for months. Every now and again I would have the same dream involving the two characters, Ana and Sam. I began daydreaming the story and before I knew it, I had about 50 notes on my phone. Rough drafts of various scenes in the book.
Cate Nielson Raye
Usually by reading other books that inspire me. I wrote my first book because I had read so many Romance novels and was missing that one thing I wanted to read about. So I wrote what I wasn't getting from other books.
Cate Nielson Raye
Book 2 in the "Where the Heart Lies" series.
Cate Nielson Raye
Don't think about writing, don't spend too much time researching HOW to write. Just do it.
Cate Nielson Raye
Writing is a type of therapy. My stories stop bugging me once I write them down.
Cate Nielson Raye
Continue writing, no matter how terrible the work is. I can always go back through it later in editing and rewrite the parts that I struggled with. Stopping is not an option for me in moments like that.
Cate Nielson Raye
I'd go to Diagon Alley and buy everything I could get my hands on. Then I'd get the Hogwarts Express to Hogsmeade, load up on sweets in Honeydukes and have a few drinks in the Three Broomsticks. Then I would walk up to Hogwarts, spend the day exploring the secret passages and end it by joining a feast in the Great Hall!
Cate Nielson Raye
Noticing my son's wide, innocent eyes darting sporadically to the dark corner of his bedroom I tucked him tighter under the covers and whispered in his ear, "You know ghosts aren't real right, Charlie?"
He pulled the covers up to his nose and gasped his reply, his eyes not leaving the shadow forming in the corner of the room, "I know, it's the demons that scare me the most."
He pulled the covers up to his nose and gasped his reply, his eyes not leaving the shadow forming in the corner of the room, "I know, it's the demons that scare me the most."
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