Ask the Author: Violet Lumani
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Violet Lumani
I should know more about the release date for book 2 (tentatively titled HINDSIGHT) soon, and I believe it WILL be on NetGalley! I’ll provide an update when I know more.
Also, I’m always happy to add a new Beta reader or two to my distribution list, so if anyone is interested in reading HINDSIGHT right now and providing a gut take, you can email me at info@violetlumani.com. :)
Also, I’m always happy to add a new Beta reader or two to my distribution list, so if anyone is interested in reading HINDSIGHT right now and providing a gut take, you can email me at info@violetlumani.com. :)
Violet Lumani
It's really incredible fun to sit down and create a new world, or examine an old theme in a new way, or just to create in general. But the best, best, BEST is when a reader says something I've written--a turn of phrase or a scene or whatever--touched them in some way. To put pen to paper and turn out something that maybe resonates with someone... I don't think that's a feeling that can ever get old.
Violet Lumani
With knitting, sometimes you don't realize something went awry a few stitches back until you stand back and look at the thing you're creating. So you have to pull some of the work you just did apart in order to move forward. That's what writing yourself into a corner, and getting yourself out of it, feels like.
What I'd tell someone with writer's block is: backtrack a few scenes or chapters and see if you observe a new or different way forward. Or go back and rewrite a past scene from memory and see if something sparks. Or write a future scene even if you don't know what is going to happen with it. Transcribe War and Peace if you have to. Just never stop writing. Writer's paralysis is the enemy.
What I'd tell someone with writer's block is: backtrack a few scenes or chapters and see if you observe a new or different way forward. Or go back and rewrite a past scene from memory and see if something sparks. Or write a future scene even if you don't know what is going to happen with it. Transcribe War and Peace if you have to. Just never stop writing. Writer's paralysis is the enemy.
Violet Lumani
I think writing is like a muscle, and as such, it needs exercising and conditioning and endurance training. Write, write, write. Whenever and wherever you can...until you finish the thing. Get that first draft down and don't worry about it being terrible. You're just putting all your sand in your sandbox with that first draft, and the editing or rewriting process is when you get to start carving out your castles.
Violet Lumani
I just wrapped an adult rom com I wrote during the pandemic (I wanted to write something light and fun), and I'm now a bunch of chapters into Book 2 of the Scryer Series, tentatively titled HINDSIGHT.
Violet Lumani
I get inspired to write when I read. Simple as that.
I don't mean that in a hubristic way, like me sitting down to read Neil Gaiman or Salman Rushdie and thinking, 'Gee I can do that too,' -- that's not at all the case. Rather, when I immerse myself in a rich world someone has created, I get an itch to create as well.
I don't mean that in a hubristic way, like me sitting down to read Neil Gaiman or Salman Rushdie and thinking, 'Gee I can do that too,' -- that's not at all the case. Rather, when I immerse myself in a rich world someone has created, I get an itch to create as well.
Violet Lumani
I grew up around people reading coffee cups to tease out the future or reciting dreams in the hopes someone might know what the dream "meant," so the idea for a group of people who can see or interpret the future came early on. And although I struggled with whether or not to make it known, this is an #ownvoices work when it comes to the main character Cassie's OCD and anxiety.
The combination of wanting to explore my own mind, the anxiety inherent in always looking to the future, and my desire to create a fictional place where someone could feasibly trade the faux control OCD gives folks for real control was something that kept calling my name.
The combination of wanting to explore my own mind, the anxiety inherent in always looking to the future, and my desire to create a fictional place where someone could feasibly trade the faux control OCD gives folks for real control was something that kept calling my name.
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