Ask the Author: Dorothea L. Gordon
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Dorothea L. Gordon
The parallels between my present life and a past life I experienced during a regression.
Thanks for asking this question. It’s given me food for thought.
Thanks for asking this question. It’s given me food for thought.
Dorothea L. Gordon
There has always been a fantasizing side to me, a tendency to go off into a world where everything is possible and works out successfully.
I also get inspired by stories I read about people's empowering experiences. I then dream up scenarios I could use in a book.
I also get inspired by stories I read about people's empowering experiences. I then dream up scenarios I could use in a book.
Dorothea L. Gordon
I'm in the intuitive stages where I weigh ideas and images coming in and see if I can spin a story around them. So I jot down the thoughts and play around to see what sticks. There is a story forming about a dog and his deep connection to a young boy. Adventure, hardship, growth, heroism, and so on.
Dorothea L. Gordon
See if you can craft a story line that makes sense to the head as well as the heart. There needs to be a buildup, a development that challenges the hero
or protagonist to go through some kind of hardship and come out as a new and empowered character. Look at successful authors like Jane Austen or Mary Higgins-Clark, Ken Follett, and so on. They are timeless because they speak to readers' hearts and souls. That way it doesn't matter if it's a social, mystery, or educating subject. Look at 'Chicken Soup for the Soul' which used this approach and sold over 500 million copies world wide.
Those are important criteria for me when I choose a book and then to either finish it or abort it half-way through. There
or protagonist to go through some kind of hardship and come out as a new and empowered character. Look at successful authors like Jane Austen or Mary Higgins-Clark, Ken Follett, and so on. They are timeless because they speak to readers' hearts and souls. That way it doesn't matter if it's a social, mystery, or educating subject. Look at 'Chicken Soup for the Soul' which used this approach and sold over 500 million copies world wide.
Those are important criteria for me when I choose a book and then to either finish it or abort it half-way through. There
Dorothea L. Gordon
This absolute sense of freedom to use words to create pictures in someone else's mind; to go back to the old art of telling a story which touches deep layers of the soul and makes readers yearn for more; to draw them in so they can forget about themselves for a few hours and allow their imagination to travel off to new experiences, perspectives and insights;
Dorothea L. Gordon
I would go to the world of Jane Austen and become one of her heroines, ready to bring in changes for women's status in society. Jane's novels are such a source of inspiration for me. I love to experience how feisty women like Elizabeth Bennett were able to shape their own destinies by being true to their core values.
Dorothea L. Gordon
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