Ask the Author: Roberta M. Roy
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Roberta M. Roy
Something bugs me. I write. I arrive at an insight. I write. A speculative larger question comes to my mind. I write.
Roberta M. Roy
Mostly coaching, reading manuscripts of others, and critiquing the larger structure of other writers' works. Essentially acting more as a publisher than a writer of my own original works.
Roberta M. Roy
Write. Seek, accept, and use honest criticisms. Take a course. Be sure you have the rules of sentence and paragraph writing suggested in Essentials of English down cold. Write. Read other writers. Rewrite. Find a real editor. Attend to the details. Then rewrite again.
Roberta M. Roy
The delight when something one writes reads well.
Roberta M. Roy
Writer's block has not been anything I have experienced. I have however found that if I do not have the time available to research and write or the quiet in which to do it, I do not even consider writing.
Roberta M. Roy
My most recent book, Straight from the Robin's Nest is a book of my essays some of which had been originally published with photographs he had taken as illustrations. Among them are three on mourning as I experienced it following his death. As such it is a limited commemorative edition in color that is dedicated to the memory of my beloved, caring, and creative son, Stefano Ottaviani.
I could think of no better way to sing my love of him to the world.
I could think of no better way to sing my love of him to the world.
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