Ask the Author: Christina Carson
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Christina Carson
My inspiration comes from having a subject I want to explore personally and doing so through characters and a story. Thus the story then matters to me and challenges me to finish so I too can come to understand or know the answer I seek.
Christina Carson
I have been working on short stories for a year or so and have found that I love writing short stories. I most enjoy short, short stories, meaning around 3000 words or less, and I challenge myself to see if can not only create a story in that short word count but also say something that will give the reader pause. I have 16 written and want to do 4 more before I considering publishing it.
Christina Carson
I love good writing - a beautifully turned phrase, an insightful observation, a rich and evocative description. So when I manage to come up with a piece of good writing,, it is so rewarding that I feel most fortunate to be drawn to something that has the potential to so satisfy me - the ability to write.
Christina Carson
I go into edit mode and work on material I've already written that is as yet unpublished. That work then improves and I feel competent again and proceed back to what I was originally stuck on. It works well for me and it keeps me moving forward.
Christina Carson
This book had an unusual birth. I was at a very low point in my life, and I began to recall an experience I had as a 16 year old while in the hospital after surgery. I had my first, and to that point, only experience of what I would call all-inclusive love. Each morning and each evening, a black orderly came into my room to do the cleaning, and each one (a man in the morning; a woman at night) treated me like I was their child, their concern for me and my well-being expressed through unbounded kindness. I never forgot what that felt like. And in that dark time years later, even though I was half-way through another novel, I went to a clear screen, and Miss Imogene, a composite of those two people, came to me full-blown. Over the next three years of writing the book and spending that time with her, I came back from that dark place, and had a dear friend as close as my new novel. This work is a profound love story, and as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was quoted as saying, one of the greatest powers for change on this earth is to be seduced by kindness. Miss Imogene can show you what that looks like for she is a woman who accepts a death-bed behest from her mother to continue a matrilineal tradition in her family, that being to love the world even in the midst of a racially charged, politically divisive 20th century.
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