Ask the Author: Susan Barrett Price
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Susan Barrett Price
(1) Deliberately set aside early morning time to noodle my way through the block. Or (2) switch to another related task, like research or making character notes.
Susan Barrett Price
Watching good sentences emerge from the tips of my fingers -- sentences my brain didn't know it contained.
Susan Barrett Price
Don't let teachers and other experts discourage you. I was 14 when, with great embarrassment, I tore up my first novel because it didn't have "a beginning, a middle, and an end," concepts I was just learning in 9th grade English class. I always regretted that and really blame myself for being such a weenie. Criticism should encourage you to learn.
Susan Barrett Price
I'm researching a novel on the power of art and cultural artifacts to enchant us. Art, like love, can lead us into craziness. Watch this space...
Susan Barrett Price
Nancy Drew did it. I started my first Nancy Drew knock-off in fifth grade. I was in a new school and sharing what I wrote helped me make friends.
Susan Barrett Price
I fell in love with a collector of antiquities and vintage folk art. Looking at the international marketplace through his eyes started my research into the dilemmas of collecting and selling cultural material. Then... a trip through Thailand gave me my setting.
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