Ask the Author: Lillian Csernica
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Lillian Csernica
The best solutions I've found are in Andy Couturier's Writing Open the Mind. His "writing experiments" stimulate different areas of the brain and help bring out thoughts, memories, and ideas I might not have otherwise written about.
Lillian Csernica
I get to wear my bathrobe all day and nobody gives me funny looks.
Lillian Csernica
Read. Read everything. Read all the time. Keep charging those word batteries. Make a daily commitment to write. Time goal, page goal, whatever. Do it and keep it. That will build your momentum.
Lillian Csernica
I'm about to do the final edit on my Japanese historical romance novel. Several short stories are in the works at different stages of development.
Lillian Csernica
I plan my work the night before. Then I re-read what I wrote to get me warmed up for the day's work. That will get me into the groove of what's happening on the page at that moment.
Lillian Csernica
I love Japan. I came across a character in one of the manga I read. He wasn't a major character, so I got to wondering about his backstory. From there I built my own hero, quite different from the original except for being Japanese and living in a remote location. Creating my heroine, a British girl raised in Japan and speaking only Japanese, was considerably more difficult.
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