Ask the Author: Deb Davies
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Deb Davies
She found Anna, her best friend, crouched in a corner of the dark room, hiding her face. They would face each other now and see if the other was human, and learn if that was, at last, a good thing, or not.
Deb Davies
I would like to go to the National Museum of Natural History described in Anthony Doerr's ALL THE LIGHT WE CANNOT SEE, before German troops invaded Paris, and stop time long enough to bring in a mattress and pillow and blanket and perhaps a cook stove, and stay for weeks, wandering through the museum. I would, of course, want the needed key ring!.
Deb Davies
The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek, In the Bleak Midwinter, The Story of Trees and How They Changed the Way we Live, A Naturalist at Large
Deb Davies
I'll beat myself up for a while, then realize I need to put what I'm working on away. Get outside, walk the dog; watch a movie; scratch the cat; write letters to a few close friends; talk to my daughter, or my son, or my daughter-in-law, and catch up on news about my grand kids, who remind me that there's a big wide wild (spiders, toads, etc.) life out there besides my concerns. Recently my husband and I have fallen prey to doing jigsaw puzzles. Basically, I try to put some of my ego aside!
Deb Davies
I like Kurt Vonnegut's belief. I'm paraphrasing, but he said everyone should write, because writing makes us more fully human.
Deb Davies
Obviously, read. For me, it helps to read a wide range of books, from poetry (mostly contemporary black women's writing) to YA novels, and some nonfiction, including books about topics I'm writing about. It helps to have a writers' group. AND--don't be too hard on yourself. Everyone has times when they go blank, or hate what they've done, or have to massively revise. Put your writing away for a week, or even a lot longer, and when you go back, you'll have a sense of what worked.
Deb Davies
I'm working on a rough, messy draft of book three in the Coast to Coast Michigan Mystery series; the same main characters who get into trouble as sure as the sparks fly upward. The second book--tentative title White Nights--takes place in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, and the third--tentatively titled Sugar Sands--takes place on the Lake Michigan shore.
Deb Davies
My characters tend to get into my head, into my sleep, kick me about mentally and say, "what are you doing next? Have you got some things that are beautiful in there, and some tension, and some humor?"
Deb Davies
My two main characters, Claire and Laurel, came to me in an early morning dream and said "Hey! Write about us!"
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