Ask the Author: Cheryl King
Answered Questions (5)
Cheryl King
I'm working on a sequel to Sitting on Top of the World and a resource for reading teachers.
Cheryl King
Easy: Sleep on it. For some reason, I dream up great ideas and can't wait to start writing in the morning. Unless it's a weekday and I have to go to work. Then I either have to remember the ideas that I dreamed up until I get home and can write them out, or I quickly jot them into the notes app on my phone.
Cheryl King
Basically all the Kristin Hannah books!
Cheryl King
Oh, no noubt, I'm going to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
Cheryl King
A few years ago, I read an article about train-hopping during the Great Depression, and I found it fascinating. Then, I recently was participating in a flash fiction writing contest where writers are given a specific genre in which to write. Before receiving my assignment, I started to think about which genre would be the most challenging for me, and I decided on historical fiction. So I thought, "What would I write if I received historical fiction as my assigned genre?" I thought back to that train-hopping article and began forming this idea of a teen girl train-hopping to find work during the Great Depression. I never received historical fiction as my genre for the contest, but the story idea kept nagging at me anyway, so I practically wrote the 1,000-word flash fiction pieces in my head over the next few months and then was compelled to type it up and expand it into a 67,000-ish-word novel.
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