Ask the Author: Sharon Oard Warner
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Sharon Oard Warner
The Man Who Loved Children by Christina Stead
Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting by Robert McKee
These Foolish Things by Deborah Moggach (novel on which Best Exotic Marigold Hotel was based.)
Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting by Robert McKee
These Foolish Things by Deborah Moggach (novel on which Best Exotic Marigold Hotel was based.)
Sharon Oard Warner
Reading inspires me to write. I began writing as a teenager, a bookworm responding to a love of words. Nothing is is more inspiring than reading a captivating novel. Right now, I am immersed in LONGBOURNE by Jo Baker. Baker's novel was itself inspired by another great novel, PRIDE AND PREJUDICE by Jane Austen. LONGBOURNE is a retelling of PRIDE AND PREJUDICE, from the perspective of the servants who make a life of leisure possible for the Bennet family. I can't help but think that Jane Austen would be charmed and delighted by Baker's book. I certainly am.
Sharon Oard Warner
I use a writing journal as a tool for compiling character notes, details of scenes in progress, and general kvetching. If I can't seem to find my way through a scene, I discuss the problem in my journal: "What's wrong here, anyway? Is it a question of not knowing enough about the circumstances, the location, the characters' emotional and/or physical states?" The way out of writer's block is to answer my own questions. Inevitably, this method will lift the fog that has settled over my writing desk and get me back on track.
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