Ask the Author: Dixie Dawn Miller Goode
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Dixie Dawn Miller Goode
Every little question can turn into a book plot if I think on it long enough. The mystery of my Great Grandmother's being kicked out of her Father's life when she married a stage driver who was white started me thinking in a direction that eventually became my Oregon Trail Novel. Now my concerns for the possible futures my grandchildren face is the biggest mysteries I contemplate.
Dixie Dawn Miller Goode
I tend to write the way I read, more than one book going at once. Slowly I have been making progress on three books. The furthest along is the third book in the Tales of Uhrlin. I have tentatively titled it "Duffy Barkley: the Third Charm" and in this book my young hero is again worried about his younger sister, and also his Aunt when both females vanish from Aunt Peg's farm. I am also working on another book about the writing desk that allows people in similar situations in different times, to communicate by sometimes finding the other person's journal's and possessions inside the desk. This second novel features two 15 year old boys in the looming shadow of active volcanoes to communicate over almost two millennia. The third book would be my thee children's picture book, featuring paintings and photographs and information about redwood trees.
Dixie Dawn Miller Goode
My most recent books were just published together. They are only recent in terms of actually being offered to other people, but in my life they are nearly 20 years old. The inspiration for Moonrise, was finger-painting with and singing lullabies to my two young men, back when they were just toddlers. The inspiration of Rainbows Around Us, goes even further back. In Jr. High and High school I had a good friend who was blind, and I struggled to think how to describe something like sight, and colors to someone who had never seen. i wanted to use descriptions from taste and smell and touch to explain the color photographs in my book.
Dixie Dawn Miller Goode
I always knew I was meant to write, I started telling myself stories before I even knew what words were. I wrote poems and outlined stories on every scrap of paper that came my way and yet, I cheated myself by letting life get in the way. I only wrote when I had a deadline, an assignment to fill, or when I was writing long Holiday letters to copy and send out en-masse.
Then I began telling my stories to my kids, until there was a young handicapped boy named Duffy Barkley, already living and breathing in the air with me. And then I heard about two extremely helpful on-line sites, one being NaNoWriMo, and they changed my life from, "Someday" to "Do it Now!" Flylady.com, was mainly a site where I was encouraged to give up perfection and just bless my home with 15 minutes at a time. What can you do in 15 minutes a day? Create a warm, welcoming home out of Chaos, and write a novel in your spare time. Learn to Finally Love Yourself (FLY) as you do it. And in bursts of inspiration and the willingness to just jump in where I was, my first dream of a book became a real thing that can be found on-line and in stores and held and hated or loved and has begun a life without me.
Then I began telling my stories to my kids, until there was a young handicapped boy named Duffy Barkley, already living and breathing in the air with me. And then I heard about two extremely helpful on-line sites, one being NaNoWriMo, and they changed my life from, "Someday" to "Do it Now!" Flylady.com, was mainly a site where I was encouraged to give up perfection and just bless my home with 15 minutes at a time. What can you do in 15 minutes a day? Create a warm, welcoming home out of Chaos, and write a novel in your spare time. Learn to Finally Love Yourself (FLY) as you do it. And in bursts of inspiration and the willingness to just jump in where I was, my first dream of a book became a real thing that can be found on-line and in stores and held and hated or loved and has begun a life without me.
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