Ask the Author: Michael C. White
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Michael C. White
Sorry about the long delay, but funny you should ask about a mystery from my own life serving as a plot for a book. Both A BROTHER'S BLOOD (Harper Collins) and a new novel that will be coming out in the future, SKUNKTOWN, came from experiences in my life.
Michael C. White
The idea for Resting Places (due out on March 1, 2016) came while I was traveling in New England. I saw a number of "roadside memorials," those crosses on the side of the road put up in memory of someone who was killed at that spot. I began stopping at memorials all over the country and seeing what people had left and what they'd written on each cross. Each resting places told an entire story, both about the deceased and about the loved ones left behind. With this in mind, I wrote the story of Elizabeth, a woman who loses her son in a car accident in New Mexico and decides to go on a cross-country journey to the site of his death. During the trip she undergoes a vast spiritual and psychological awakening.
Michael C. White
I get inspired by reading other novels and by hiking in the woods.
Michael C. White
I am writing a novel set in and around the 1936 Berlin Olympics. It's about a Jewish-German (now American) middle distance runner who returns to Germany to compete in the Olympics for the US. While he's there he hopes to help his former fiancé, now imprisoned by the Gestapo.
Michael C. White
Read and read closely those writers you admire; write those stories that you need to tell.
Michael C. White
There are three things that are great about being a writing:
1. I get to make up my own world and stories, peopling them with characters I find interesting.
2. I get to enter into other people's live and times, going from a present-day mother who's lost her child (Resting Places), to a time before the Civil War (Soul Catcher).
3. I can spend all day playing with words.
1. I get to make up my own world and stories, peopling them with characters I find interesting.
2. I get to enter into other people's live and times, going from a present-day mother who's lost her child (Resting Places), to a time before the Civil War (Soul Catcher).
3. I can spend all day playing with words.
Michael C. White
I've never really had writer's block. There have been many times when I don't write well or have difficulty putting words on the page, or what I've written doesn't go where I want it to. But simply sitting down in the chair and looking at a place screen or page forces me to think and then to write.
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