Ask the Author: K.A. Bauer
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K.A. Bauer
My inspiration mainly draws from my dreams and errant thoughts. Most of my characters are named what they are because of what's going on around me at the time they need a name.
As for what makes me sit down and start writing? It's two fold. On one hand, I force myself to sit and try to write for at least an hour per week. But when the characters won't shut up in my head and let me focus on things like laundry and dishes and anything else, I sit and write to get the ideas out so I can have the peace to do other tasks... yes I'm fully aware I sound like a crazy person but think of it like an ADHD hyper fixation. It's the same kind of thing.
Why do I write? I grew up telling stories but at some point in my life, I was convinced that no one wanted to hear them... And I stopped. It took me twenty years and a lot of therapy to realize I just need to say F the haters and start telling stories again.
As for what makes me sit down and start writing? It's two fold. On one hand, I force myself to sit and try to write for at least an hour per week. But when the characters won't shut up in my head and let me focus on things like laundry and dishes and anything else, I sit and write to get the ideas out so I can have the peace to do other tasks... yes I'm fully aware I sound like a crazy person but think of it like an ADHD hyper fixation. It's the same kind of thing.
Why do I write? I grew up telling stories but at some point in my life, I was convinced that no one wanted to hear them... And I stopped. It took me twenty years and a lot of therapy to realize I just need to say F the haters and start telling stories again.
K.A. Bauer
This is a rather funny story. Ever have one of those dreams where you wake up and it kinda sticks with you in the back of your mind? That happened to me one morning. I woke up and the last part of the dream was it was raining and I was using a grassy hill as a slip n slide with this guy I've never met but he was shorter than me with light Auburn hair and bright blue eyes. We were having a blast. Then I woke up and Ethan was stuck in my brain and he starts telling me how he rescues Jack and how he was in a lab and just got out. The slip n slide never made it into the book but Ethan forced me to write for the next week pretty much every waking moment. 😆
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