Ask the Author: Lisa Verge Higgins
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Lisa Verge Higgins
Hogwarts. I'd probably spend days in the library and the rest of the time drinking butterbeer in Hogsmeade....
Lisa Verge Higgins
I like to call RANDOM ACTS OF KINDNESS my "Thelma and Louise" meets "Pay it Forward" book, because it's focuses on three women on a cross-country road trip who discover that a single random act of kindness can boomerang into the world, coming back to change their lives in ways they never expected.
Having experienced that phenomenon on my own, I was inspired to try to show the full beauty of that idea in a novel.
Having experienced that phenomenon on my own, I was inspired to try to show the full beauty of that idea in a novel.
Lisa Verge Higgins
I'm currently working on SENSELESS ACTS OF BEAUTY, the stand-alone sequel to RANDOM ACTS OF KINDNESS, about a woman, Riley Cross, who stumbles across a teenage runaway in the shed of her family's Adirondack camp -- a runaway who has some dangerous secrets of her own.
Lisa Verge Higgins
After sixteen books, I don't wait on inspiration. I hunt it down, drag it to my desk, and wrestle it to the ground. Then I write. ;)
Lisa Verge Higgins
Writing is a long, lonely apprenticeship, and, alas, there are no shortcuts. It's important to read a lot, and read critically, see how other authors are creating conflict and making vibrant characters, etc. It's also important to go to workshops and conferences and read books on craft, but the most important thing of all is just to *write.* And write and write and write. Keep telling the stories that only *you* can tell. The world wants to hear them!
Basil King said, "Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid."
Basil King said, "Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid."
Lisa Verge Higgins
DEADLINES! Seriously! It's amazing how motivated you can be when a book is due in a few short months. Also, I also work into my schedule long stretches of down time--several weeks between books--just to give the creative mind time to rest, renew, rejuvenate.
Lisa Verge Higgins
The best thing about being a writer is being able to stay home and work and still be available for my kids. I get the best of both worlds!
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