Ask the Author: Lola R. Opeyemi
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Lola R. Opeyemi
Um, I’m not sure I have a mystery per se. I would like to understand myself more. I suppose it’s what I try to explore in my books: the motivations behind why people do things that they do. Emotional, familial or historical.
Lola R. Opeyemi
I don't deal with it. Some people say there is no writer's block. But I think there is, it's called fear.
Lola R. Opeyemi
When a piece of work is finished.
Lola R. Opeyemi
Writing is one of the few professions where we wait for people to approve of us before we think we are writers.
My thought is that only you really know if you are a writer deep down. Don't wait until someone tells you that you are. Just. Start. Writing.
My thought is that only you really know if you are a writer deep down. Don't wait until someone tells you that you are. Just. Start. Writing.
Lola R. Opeyemi
I am working on my second book - it is about a child who is given away shortly after birth and the events that happen after that.
Lola R. Opeyemi
I am working on my second book - it is about a child who is given away shortly after birth and the events that happen after that.
Lola R. Opeyemi
I read a lot, not just books but magazine articles, news, anything with a human interest angle. I also listen a lot to podcasts (for the same reason) and through this, I get inspired to write human interest stories.
Lola R. Opeyemi
I wanted to write a simple immigration story about a Nigerian family moving across to the UK. This story is so common, there are so many of us. How did we move here?
That's where the idea for Wrap Me in Trees comes from.
That's where the idea for Wrap Me in Trees comes from.
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