Ask the Author: Jemima Price
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Jemima Price
Escape.
Reliving old experiences.
Creating new worlds.
Allowing characters to grow and change.
Making people laugh!
Reliving old experiences.
Creating new worlds.
Allowing characters to grow and change.
Making people laugh!
Jemima Price
I am lucky in that I don't get writer's block. But i do find it hard to make myself sit down and write. I am a real procrastinator and will avoid sitting down, which is strange as when I do, I am in my element and can't stop writing!
I also think about where my story will go at other times when my head is clearer such as when I go for a run or am in the park with my children. This means when I sit down to write I am raring to go with the next step of the my story!
I also think about where my story will go at other times when my head is clearer such as when I go for a run or am in the park with my children. This means when I sit down to write I am raring to go with the next step of the my story!
Jemima Price
Cliche but true - just do it. Set aside a period of the day where you work well and give yourself a short burst of time to just write.
Don't worry about perfection - that can come later. I always say to my students, filling the page is the hard bit; you can change how it's written later.
Allow the story to be organic and let it grow. I love it when characters move in directions that I didn't expect. The love interest in Finding Ruby didn't even start out as the love interest! I just grew to fall in love with him myself!
Don't worry about perfection - that can come later. I always say to my students, filling the page is the hard bit; you can change how it's written later.
Allow the story to be organic and let it grow. I love it when characters move in directions that I didn't expect. The love interest in Finding Ruby didn't even start out as the love interest! I just grew to fall in love with him myself!
Jemima Price
I am currently working on a new novel entitled Diaries of a Hot Dad's Wife. This grew from observations of life as a 40 year old mum and wife and also from the weird idiosyncrasies of living in a small village!
Jemima Price
Often when I am running, ideas come to me about where my story should go. Then when I get home, I completely forget what it was that I had thought of! I am going to record my ideas next time while I am running. Maybe it's the exercise endorphins rushing to my brain!
Jemima Price
I got the idea while on a round-the-world trip when I was younger. I wanted to record my amazing experiences and I met people on the way who had such wonderful stories. One day I met someone who had had a similar experience to Ruby and I thought, I wonder what it would be like to suddenly find yourself travelling alone in the deepest depths of SE Asia? And the story grew from there!
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