Ask the Author: Katherine Frances
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Katherine Frances
A dream, actually. The first scene in my book is basically a transcription of a dream I had in the lighter stages of sleep. I just wrote what I say and everything just spawned from that.
Katherine Frances
Well, probably reading. I advocate reading to children until I'm blue in the face, and here's why. My bedtime stories, as well as picture books and things more my age level, were stories like The Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, The Secret Garden. Those are not kindergarten level readings, but my parents read them to me and I loved them. I think that's a big part of what made me want to tell stories. That's really where it started, story telling. And the I learned to write and it became novel writing.
Katherine Frances
What am I not currently working on? Let's see, besides work and school which takes up a vast amount of my time, as well as tending to my recently published work and it's sequel, I have... 3 works I'm tentatively 'working on'... and I just started another one last night. Though it only has a few 100 words so I hardly count that. We'll see where it goes.
Oh, but I feel like this question was looking for something more specific, so let me give it a try. I have one post-apocalyptic piece that takes place in DC. The characters are part of a gang in a world where people are branded as unsuitable for society based on a sequence of their DNA. Very different from what I usually do, but I like it so far.
Another one is finished but I need to edit it, probably a lot. It's about an assassin and a psychologist in a steampunk-ish world.
One of them is another fantasy work that is too complicated to explain, but there are multiple words and I'm kinda stuck with it.
We'll see where they take me.
Oh, but I feel like this question was looking for something more specific, so let me give it a try. I have one post-apocalyptic piece that takes place in DC. The characters are part of a gang in a world where people are branded as unsuitable for society based on a sequence of their DNA. Very different from what I usually do, but I like it so far.
Another one is finished but I need to edit it, probably a lot. It's about an assassin and a psychologist in a steampunk-ish world.
One of them is another fantasy work that is too complicated to explain, but there are multiple words and I'm kinda stuck with it.
We'll see where they take me.
Katherine Frances
Screw everyone. Accept yourself. Haha, what I mean is, it doesn't matter if you publish. It doesn't matter if people like it. It doesn't matter if no one ever reads your work but you. Forget all that until the story is finished. Writing is something you do for yourself, to clean out your heart and mind. It's a health habit. As long as you live by that, you'll write good work.
Katherine Frances
That's hard to answer because I feel it's similar to asking "What's the best thing about being a girl?" Well, I've never been a boy, so I wouldn't know.
Katherine Frances
Well, usually I only get writer's block when I'm stuck with a story. Something just isn't quite right with it, something is missing or I just don't know where to go next. And the best thing I think a writer can do at that point is to take a break. I know that's the opposite of what most people say, but seriously, take a break. Not from writing, but from that story. I move on to some older piece, maybe start something new, maybe edit old work. Maybe not do anything for a month. Usually the answer to my problem will come to me as long as I don't force it.
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