Ask the Author: Eva Moon
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Eva Moon
I have a little bracelet that says "JUST START." I've decided in advance what my "Minimum Viable Action" (MVA) is. If I open the file, read one page, and make one note or change, I've satisfied my MVA and I give myself permission to stop and call it a win. Of course, once I start, it never stops there. Starting is the key. The rest will take care of itself. I also have a writing group that meets to just write for two hours every week. I know that I have to show up and write, even if it's just garbage. It seldom is.
Eva Moon
The publishing industry is so harsh right now, if you're not writing for yourself you're probably in for a disappointing time. Write what's in your heart to write, give it everything you've got, do your best to get it out there. The rest is not up to you.
Eva Moon
I have two novels in the works. One is a dystopian science fiction loose retelling of The Little Mermaid and the other is a look at the entirely neglected birth mothers of stories with famous stepmothers: Cinderella, etc.
Eva Moon
Imagine your brain is a giant Costco. Every experience you've ever had is lined up on the shelves and you can walk down the aisles and remember this thing or that thing. Now, imagine it's been hit by a tornado. Everything is all mixed up on the floor at random. You never know what will bump up against what. It's random connections that spur my creative ideas, the way two chemicals spilling out of broken containers spur toxic fumes. Once they're in the air, I have to deal with them.
Eva Moon
Not long ago I learned that I have the BRCA1 genetic mutation that gives me an 87% chance of breast cancer and 55% chance of ovarian cancer. I had a preventive double mastectomy and hysterectomy immediately. I'm grateful for the chance to prevent cancer, but I hardly recognized myself anymore. Pinocchio started to fascinate me because he also went through a radical physical transformation. His was wished for, but wishes can be tricky. We all assume he lived happily ever after, but did he? Did he struggle to acclimate to this new body? Did he suffer from Impostor Syndrome, knowing he looked like a normal person, but wasn't really like others? I wanted to explore this side of his story and setting it in the years between the world wars felt relevant to our own times - a time of rapidly growing extreme division and political strife.
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