Ask the Author: Amanda Daire
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Amanda Daire
Usually, if I'm having a hard time writing, it's because there are pieces of my work in progress that aren't quite fitting together. I'll often take time to listen to an audiobook, podcast, or workshop on various elements of the craft of writing to help inspire me, and then get back to the plotting board to see where I might be going wrong. Sometimes I simply need a break to do something fun to get my mind back to writing.
Amanda Daire
Getting to explore lives that are different from mine and imagining how the characters would handle the challenges they encounter--I love that!
Amanda Daire
Learn as much as you can and write as often as possible! <3 You've got this!
Amanda Daire
I'm working on plotting book 5 of the Happil-TEA Ever After Tea Room series and revising book 2. :)
Amanda Daire
I knew I wanted to write about women who had become estranged from their family members, particularly because I had been struggling to come to terms with emotions surrounding my own estrangement (different from the book, but similar emotions.) One day I was driving and started imagining what it would be like to have one public image (bubbly preschool teacher) and a secret life at night (struggling alcoholic who lies about her relationship with her daughter, whom she's been secretly estranged from for five years.) I wanted the mother and daughter to have different views of what went wrong in their relationship, but I wanted them to both be sympathetic characters despite their negative emotions. As I was plotting, my main character's mother, whom she had been estranged from for twenty years, popped up and let me know she'd like her story told, too. I loved the idea of helping these characters to heal these multigenerational wounds, and I hope you'll enjoy the journey of reading along as they attempt to do just that! :)
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