Ask the Author: Elizabeth V. Roach
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Elizabeth V. Roach
I am working on a story about Maria Reiche, the protector of the Nazca Lines in Peru.
Elizabeth V. Roach
I take a rest, go for a walk, have a cup of coffee, work on some other writing.
Elizabeth V. Roach
My last book was a series of stories for tots. I put together some of my own childhood experience as well as some of children I knew or stories I wanted to tell children.
Elizabeth V. Roach
I began writing when I worked with street children, shoeshine boys in Peru. They were so alive, eager, and resourceful. I just had to tell somebody about them.
Elizabeth V. Roach
Live, care about people, earth, what's happening and WRITE!
Elizabeth V. Roach
So many things! Maybe the best is knowing that the world is my laboratory for writing. I meet a lot of people and they are all wonderful resources for writing. Some people are just fascinating, others may not be as interesting, but sometimes it is just fun when I am trying to invent a story. I try to remember how they looked, their eyes, their lips, their gestures. How can I describe a person so that the reader sees them as clearly as I do. Some I put in my character collection. Years later I have use some silly little characteristic I observed.
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