Ask the Author: Arista Holmes
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Arista Holmes
An icy chill pervades my spirit as I float, incorporally, beside what was once my body.
Gaping in breathless disbelief as it walks away into my life, the creature inside its skin offers me nothing more than an unrepentant grin as I disperse into death.
Gaping in breathless disbelief as it walks away into my life, the creature inside its skin offers me nothing more than an unrepentant grin as I disperse into death.
Arista Holmes
Be passionate about your projects.
There's a whole slew of advice out there for writers. Some of it good, some bad, and some of it is neither, it's just advice that may or may not work for you. But I've found being passionate about your projects, and in love with the process, will help sustain you while you figure out the whole process.
I personally find the self editing stage incredibly frustrating, but being in love with my work and the story I was telling helped me keep going in spite of that frustration. Also having writer friends to rant to. That helped too!
There's a whole slew of advice out there for writers. Some of it good, some bad, and some of it is neither, it's just advice that may or may not work for you. But I've found being passionate about your projects, and in love with the process, will help sustain you while you figure out the whole process.
I personally find the self editing stage incredibly frustrating, but being in love with my work and the story I was telling helped me keep going in spite of that frustration. Also having writer friends to rant to. That helped too!
Arista Holmes
I'm working on books two and three of the Fey Touched trilogy, Darkling and Fey Touched, respectively.
Arista Holmes
Many of my stories start with a 'What if...?' question, Changeling was no different in that regard. I had recently seen the 2019 the film 'Dark Waters', which takes a cinematic look at the environmental lawsuit against the chemical company DuPont.
It's a fantastic film, if a little terrifying, but it made me ask the question; If every human on the planet was contaminated with "Forever Chemicals", wouldn't that make our blood toxic to vampires? What would that do to vampires? And how would that scenario play out?
That premise became the creation of the kavians in the books, and everything else has spiralled out from that point.
It's a fantastic film, if a little terrifying, but it made me ask the question; If every human on the planet was contaminated with "Forever Chemicals", wouldn't that make our blood toxic to vampires? What would that do to vampires? And how would that scenario play out?
That premise became the creation of the kavians in the books, and everything else has spiralled out from that point.
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