Ask the Author: Barbara Briggs Ward
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Barbara Briggs Ward
The little girl told her mother she saw creatures lurking high up in the poplar trees as the wind howled and the moon kept hiding behind rambling clouds. The mother thought the little girl with a great imagination was telling another tale as they hurried back home until down came those shrieking creatures with fingernails sharp as swords and eye sockets oozing blood and in one swoop of their branch-like arms grabbed that mother by the hair and took her away as the daughter kept on walking home.
Barbara Briggs Ward
Leave it for awhile-do other things-
Barbara Briggs Ward
The best thing is having readers talk about the characters as if they are real-that means they liked your book-and that is so rewarding.
Barbara Briggs Ward
Don't let your aspiration be making money for if it is your writing will suffer. Write because you love it and write often and don't be afraid to delete and start all over.
Barbara Briggs Ward
I am working on The Candle Giver-the 3rd book in a Christmas trilogy geared to adults.
Barbara Briggs Ward
I can sit down and write whenever I get a moment. My characters are real to me and when I stop writing at night and turn the computer off I feel like I am leaving my best friends. So when I go back to write again it is easy to start in where I left off because it is a story and I love writing stories-no inspiration needed.
Barbara Briggs Ward
I was exhibiting at a Christmas Festival selling my other books. Sitting there, I happened to turn around and noticed a little old lady-also exhibiting-sitting there knitting little snowmen. There was something about her-the way her hair was falling out of a bun sitting on top of her head and her wrinkled hands moving those needles so beautifully. I sat and watched her and from somewhere came three words I knew was the title of the next book in what is a Christmas trilogy. Those 3 words were, "The Snowman Maker." I didn't know what the story was about until I started writing-and once I started I could not stop.
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