Ask the Author: Sharon Krasny
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Sharon Krasny
I'm not exactly sure that my life is built for a mystery plot, but I do have a pretty cool story that I live. My husband grew up behind the Iron Curtain in the capital city of Prague and I was a lower middle class farmer's daughter from the Midwest. We met on a streetcar while I was overseas teaching English as a second language. A mystery? Not quite. A love story - definitely!
Sharon Krasny
Hello Timothy,
Thank you for asking! I am not sure I would call it amazed. I was in a mummy stage as there was also a female mummy found in S. Amer near the same time and so I began wondering about their lives and the stories they held. Then I found out that Ötzi had been murdered and found that quite a challenge to puzzle through.
His mummy's discovery has driven science and challenged the experts to reconsider and invent new technology and I find that impressive. He has a story to tell and ironically enough, those who killed him and left him to die alone and forgotten in the mountain pass over 5000 years ago are now completely erased from human conscience, but the one who was to be denied is now famous beyond belief. He's not the greatest to look at, but he is quite the interesting guy :)
Hope that helps.
Have you been interested by his story? Sorry it takes me a while to get back to these posts. I am still finding my way around Goodreads.
Thanks for stopping by.
Thank you for asking! I am not sure I would call it amazed. I was in a mummy stage as there was also a female mummy found in S. Amer near the same time and so I began wondering about their lives and the stories they held. Then I found out that Ötzi had been murdered and found that quite a challenge to puzzle through.
His mummy's discovery has driven science and challenged the experts to reconsider and invent new technology and I find that impressive. He has a story to tell and ironically enough, those who killed him and left him to die alone and forgotten in the mountain pass over 5000 years ago are now completely erased from human conscience, but the one who was to be denied is now famous beyond belief. He's not the greatest to look at, but he is quite the interesting guy :)
Hope that helps.
Have you been interested by his story? Sorry it takes me a while to get back to these posts. I am still finding my way around Goodreads.
Thanks for stopping by.
Sharon Krasny
Advice for me twenty years ago would have been to make time for what I am passionate about doing. Advice for me, once I started writing would have been to push myself to keep going and make time for what I was passionate about doing. So the advice I have to give is make time and give enough room for adding the first layer of your story. Be committed to go back through and add a second layer. Be courageous to go back again and add a third layer to your writing. Be absolutely beautiful believing you can add yet another layer to your writing.
Sharon Krasny
I guess I don't see writer's block as a problem. When I have to step away from my writing for reasons other than distractions with normal life duties, I step away to give my brain space to problem solve. Working through the story of a man who lived over 5300 years ago, I had to try to figure out many situations that could have been possible in his time period. Sometimes it meant I had to do more research. Sometimes it meant I just needed to let my brain stew and chew a bit on what I was digesting. I never really called it writer's block, more of a puzzle that needed to be solved.
Sharon Krasny
I would enter Middle Earth for sure and be a shield maiden. Tolkien wrote of a world of honor and courage. His world had failure and evil, but it also had bonds of brotherhood that went beyond tribes. His women were strong and refused to do as they were told, but they didn't bring discord. They brought healing, grace, and hope.
Sharon Krasny
Painting a picture with words, or building a bridge with my ideas is one of the greatest things about being a writer. Writing is the fertile soil, where two minds meet, a story is told through metaphors and similes for the other to connect, and meaning is created. It's a rather powerful moment, in fact a sacred union to have something as abstract as a word bring to life an idea that can be shared by more than one.
Sharon Krasny
Life inspires me. Seems trite, but it's true. In the blogs that I have been writing, I question the feelings and events around me. I sit and ponder the rhythms of life that I see and try to pin point where the disconnect or discord lies. That's where I start. With something simple and then I seek the profound.
Sharon Krasny
Currently I am working on the second part to the Iceman Awakens. I had originally intended the story to be one complete novel. With me being a new author, the publisher wanted to keep the book at a doable 67000 words. It's always a risk to invest in a book of a newbie and a huge book without a tested author is even more of a risk.
So I am challenging myself to complete his story in just two books, hopefully not three.
So I am challenging myself to complete his story in just two books, hopefully not three.
Sharon Krasny
The inspiration for my story came from the real life discovery of Ötzi, the mummy found buried in the alps for over 5000 years. Known as Iceman, his story inspired the world with questions when he was found in 1991 by hikers.
The more scientists learned about him, the more he challenged technology. He is the oldest intact mummy from the Neolithic period and scientists have learned that he was murdered.
They know his last meal, they have identified over 70 mosses either in his system or on him, they have studied his belongings including two arrows that were intentionally sawn through, and a crippling wound in his right hand that cut through to the bone in two places.
His story provokes questions around him. The most significant discovery, however, was that a people we once thought primitive and ignorant have now gained a voice saying they knew a lot more than we gave them credit for knowing. It is through this new understanding that my story is born.
The more I learned, the more I wanted to restore dignity and depth to a culture oppressed by our ignorance and arrogance. Ötzi's story seemed rather timely to me. His death brought the life to my new book.
The more scientists learned about him, the more he challenged technology. He is the oldest intact mummy from the Neolithic period and scientists have learned that he was murdered.
They know his last meal, they have identified over 70 mosses either in his system or on him, they have studied his belongings including two arrows that were intentionally sawn through, and a crippling wound in his right hand that cut through to the bone in two places.
His story provokes questions around him. The most significant discovery, however, was that a people we once thought primitive and ignorant have now gained a voice saying they knew a lot more than we gave them credit for knowing. It is through this new understanding that my story is born.
The more I learned, the more I wanted to restore dignity and depth to a culture oppressed by our ignorance and arrogance. Ötzi's story seemed rather timely to me. His death brought the life to my new book.
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