Ask the Author: Erica Montrose
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Erica Montrose
I swap projects, mainly. With so many ideas in my head, sometimes all it takes is to scribble ideas about something else to prompt a connection or solution I'm missing in the main work in progress.
Erica Montrose
For me, the best part of being a writer is getting the stories out of my head!
I enjoy the creative process of crafting stories, and I want my readers to enjoy them. It's the process of writing that makes it worthwhile to me.
I enjoy the creative process of crafting stories, and I want my readers to enjoy them. It's the process of writing that makes it worthwhile to me.
Erica Montrose
Don't believe what you were taught in school.
I got my writing degree at a time when online publishing wasn't done. Because of the pressures of the process to become traditionally published, I just... didn't. I focused on a corporate career instead. Now, the ability to publish on my own has opened up opportunities I didn't think were possible.
I got my writing degree at a time when online publishing wasn't done. Because of the pressures of the process to become traditionally published, I just... didn't. I focused on a corporate career instead. Now, the ability to publish on my own has opened up opportunities I didn't think were possible.
Erica Montrose
I have a couple of projects I'm currently working on. One is a free giveaway project for a Facebook group I'm in. Another is a twenty-five part short story collection with a fox shifter and witch for the winter holidays. Plus a half-dozen other random ideas bouncing around in my brain.
Erica Montrose
Plot bunnies! Anything from a dream, a random conversation, or an inspiring novel I'm reading, to suggestions from friends can get me scribbling in my notebook with ideas.
Plus feedback from readers who've enjoyed my story will energize me and get me excited to put the ideas down on paper.
Plus feedback from readers who've enjoyed my story will energize me and get me excited to put the ideas down on paper.
Erica Montrose
It was on the last day of GayRomLit in St. Louis last October when I wondered what would happen if I flipped the rich/poor trope over. The rich guy who wasn't, and the poor guy who really wasn't. As Much As I Try came out of that idea.
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