Ask the Author: Nikki Logan
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Nikki Logan
Working at home, in your PJs, dogs at your feet, listening to irrelevant traffic reports on the radio.
Nikki Logan
Know what your end game is. Are you doing this because you want to be rich? Famous? Are you doing it because you have stories in you that you just want to share? Or ideas? Ideology? Do you want to grow old still writing or is writing the thing you want to do as your private escape?
If you know where you want to be then you know what you have to do to get there. And a roadmap is critical to guiding your career.
If you know where you want to be then you know what you have to do to get there. And a roadmap is critical to guiding your career.
Nikki Logan
What's that famous quote? "I write when I'm inspired, and I see to it that I'm inspired at 9am every morning." *sigh* I wish that was me.
I am most inspired when a book is fledgling--still new and exciting and revealing itself to me as the writer. I pull together visual collages of characters, creatures, places and then start working on any research I might need before writing the story. And I get to know the characters and what makes them tick. All of that is fun and inspiring.
But I have two little writing assistants who know the drill. As soon as they see me pouring a cup of tea in the morning they plod their way up to the front of the house and flop down in the study. They know the day begins there. So as long as I have them, I'm in the mood.
I am most inspired when a book is fledgling--still new and exciting and revealing itself to me as the writer. I pull together visual collages of characters, creatures, places and then start working on any research I might need before writing the story. And I get to know the characters and what makes them tick. All of that is fun and inspiring.
But I have two little writing assistants who know the drill. As soon as they see me pouring a cup of tea in the morning they plod their way up to the front of the house and flop down in the study. They know the day begins there. So as long as I have them, I'm in the mood.
Nikki Logan
I'm working over the holidays on a book set in dark ages Wales. It's something very different from my (usual) contemporary romance but I became inspired when I visited my 'ancestral' home lands in July. Most notably from all the healing wells that I visited. The question of how/why they had become recognised as healing wells proved the genesis of the entire book.
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