Ask the Author: K.C. Pearcey
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K.C. Pearcey
Right now I am planning to reread some classics with my grandchildren - Little Women and The Hobbit, specifically. There are so many books ...
K.C. Pearcey
She knew that the darkness would never end. Hope died in her heart.
K.C. Pearcey
At heart, I am probably a Hobbit. Tea and second breakfast with Bilbo and Frodo are high on my list of people and places to imagine ...
K.C. Pearcey
I have always had vivid and quite interesting dreams. The idea for writing Dreamcatcher came to me in a dream - I dreamed I was visited by a preacher that I had known in my youth. He told me that it was critically important that I do something. When I woke, I was unable to remember what it was he told me to do. I still don't remember - but my Darling Husband says that the message was probably to write the Dreamcatcher series ...
K.C. Pearcey
I read wonderful books as I was growing up - the classics along with modern writers, especially Isaac Asimov and Alastair MacLean. I also watched old movies, especially all the Hitchcock suspense thrillers. I shared my thoughts with my grandmother who gave me a bound journal when I was ten years old and suggested that I, too, could write stories if I made the effort. That journal was the first of dozens and dozens through the years that I have filled with poetry, essays, descriptions, thoughts, ideas, and observations. Those journals have become the basis for everything I have written over the years.
K.C. Pearcey
Even before I published my first book Dreamcatcher : Secrets, I had already plotted and planned the next four books in the series. I have extensive notes and research on those four books, and as soon as Secrets was published, I sent the manuscript of the second book, Dreamcatcher : Strangers, to my wonderful editor. She finished my first found developmental edits about a week ago, and I am about 34,000 words into writing book 3, Dreamcatcher : Fortunes. My hope is to have the manuscript ready for book 3 by the time we are ready to publish book 2.
K.C. Pearcey
Keep notebooks full of ideas. Write often and do NOT judge yourself for what you have written. Be willing to listen to other writers, but NEVER compromise who you are or what you believe. Read, read, read - especially good literature in the genre you love. Find a good editor and treat him or her like your very best friend - because a good editor IS your very best friend.
K.C. Pearcey
I am never bored - there are always places to go, people to meet, and new adventures to experience - because I can go anywhere, meet anyone, and do anything in my mind and then translate that to paper and share.
K.C. Pearcey
I keep a notebook with me almost all of the time. Whenever I get an idea - a description of a place I see or a clever line or thought - I write the idea down. Whenever I am 'stuck', I go to the notebook and read through until I find a thought that I can use. I don't know if this is unusual - but I do NOT write chronologically ... I often have the end first, followed by the beginning, and then pieces in the middle that I do not arrange 'in order' until I am ready to write the whole story ...
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