Ask the Author: Michelle Cohen
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Michelle Cohen
I let the characters start playing in my head and pretty soon they are so insistent and interesting, I am racing to the computer to write down what they are all doing and saying.
Michelle Cohen
My first novel, "WEIRD" based on true events from my childhood with a OUIJA board!
Michelle Cohen
Just do it! Let it be terrible at first. I call my first draft my 'vomit'. Just get it out of your head and onto the page. You may be surprised by how much is actually in good shape.
Michelle Cohen
Expressing everything inside that is bursting to come out. Finding the perfect turn of phrase that illuminates everything you were thinking. Can do it at any time.
Michelle Cohen
I literally hang upside down from my bed. I figure the different perspective may help..or maybe it is all the blood rushing to my head :) Once I get up again, I feel refreshed, dizzy and ready to try again!
Michelle Cohen
I have been working privately with so many parents and their kids, helping them get over their night terrors. It occurred to me, I could reach so many more families if I put what I had learned into a book and share the protocal from there. Once I came up with the title--which just made me laugh--I knew I had something!
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