Ask the Author: Anne Bennett
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Anne Bennett
Most of the time I don't know where I get ideas from, they just pop into my head, but this one was prompted by a story told to me by my mother as it had happened to one of her sisters. In the true story the sister was packed off to America, but my heroine fled from home to avoid such a fate and what happens to her then is all fiction.
Anne Bennett
I didn't get inspired by anything. I always wanted to be a writer and have written since I was a child, but working full time (as a teacher) caring for 4 children and running a house gave me too little time to write a novel, but I used to write short stories and then books for children. An incident at school in 1990 damaged my spine and left me unable to walk. I was invalided out of teaching and I suddenly had oceans of time and began to write in earnest and Headline Publishing accepted the first book I sent them which was called, 'A Little Learning'.
Anne Bennett
My 19th novel which will be called, 'Another Man's Child'.
Anne Bennett
Most writers need to write and get twitchy if they don't do any for a time. but often in the beginning a budding writer needs to hone their craft, find their own voice and create their own writing style and few can just sit down and write a novel. Consider if a person hammered a nail in a piece of wood we would not say they were a carpenter and the person who replaces a washer on a leaking tap is not a plumber and a writer has to learn too. Just as a child learns to read better by reading more, it is the same for a writer. Aim to write every day, articles, short stories, nubs of ideas for that novel you are determined to write. It will not be wasted, you are serving your apprenticeship and it will make you a better writer in the end.
Anne Bennett
There isn't just one thing. I love being a writer and have the ability to create characters that become real to the readers so that they care what happens to them. And the fact that you can have a scene in your head that you portray in words,so that the reader can have a similar scene in their head/ That is awesome because It is true communication between writer and reader and what I strive for and fans often say they were so involved with the story they felt like they were part of it.. There are few jobs as great as this.
Anne Bennett
I have never experienced writer's block so I don't know how I would deal with it.
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