Ask the Author: Amy Julia Becker
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Amy Julia Becker
If I'm really stuck, I go for a walk. Usually if I let the ideas bounce around my head while I'm moving my body, something sorts itself out and I can write about it by the time I get home.
Amy Julia Becker
The chance to communicate ideas and then receive responses from a wide community of people. Every time I hear from a reader that something I've written has helped them, it's a great day. But equally great is that readers will challenge me with questions and their own thoughts that push me into new places of understanding. It's the relational aspect of writing that I love most.
Amy Julia Becker
Set a goal of how much time (or how many words) you want to write every day/week and stick to it. Find places to test out small versions of your ideas and see what sticks (i.e. blogs, articles, even Facebook posts). Take a writing class. Learn the business of writing if you want to get published--it will surprise you how much "platform building" is considered crucial to a book deal!
Amy Julia Becker
White Picket Fences: Confessions of Privilege (tentative title) is due to come out with NavPress in 2018. It's a personal narrative that reflects on race, socioeconomic class, and disability through the lens of privilege. At the risk of channeling Sarah Palin, it's a book that tells stories about privilege with thoughts on how to respond with hope and change.
Amy Julia Becker
Ideas pop into my head all the time, and writing is one way I can help my brain calm down. Before I begin writing, I pray. Sometimes if I'm really stuck I will go for a walk. But mostly, I'm not inspired. I'm just writing (and getting distracted by email and Facebook and the laundry).
Amy Julia Becker
It took years for this book to come into shape. At first I thought I was writing a book about children's books, but I found myself writing again and again about how a life of privilege affects childhood and reading and our view of the world. I finally realized I was writing a book about privilege that included children's books, not the other way around.
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