Ask the Author: Hazel Osmond
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Hazel Osmond
Good question! I think you can only do it by concentrating on the characters and thinking about what they would do. Don't think about how other people are going to view it otherwise you'll just be unable to write anything! You'll be too self conscious. I always think that people who write science fiction haven't actually gone forward in time or into space and people who write murders, haven't killed anyone, so writing steamy scenes is just doing the same as they are doing - using imagination and letting it run free!! Just stay true to the characters ... and don't try and be too anatomically detailed. Hope that helps ...
Hazel Osmond
Anything and everything - a glimpse of a situation, overhearing something on a train. And people are endlessly fascinating if you just pay attention.
Hazel Osmond
A children's story. A fantasy and another romantic comedy. Well, I like to keep busy.
Hazel Osmond
Apart from do more actual writing than talking about writing, I'd say, find a friend to read your writing who is both very objective and very kind. You need them to be both. If they're too kind they may just tell you what you want to hear. If they are objective but not gentle about it, well, that can send you scurrying back to your cave and it could knock your confidence drastically.
Hazel Osmond
Being able to create and then watching what you've created take on a life of its own. Like characters that you have decided will act in a certain way turning on you and going, 'Sorry, but I would never do that.' It's a kind of magic, I think ...
Hazel Osmond
Sit down and write. Sorry, I'm not being flippant. I've written most of my working life to deadlines, particularly in advertising and you can't go to the client and tell them you couldn't come up with an idea or any copy because you had writer's block. You just have to work through it and hope inspiration arrives at some point. If you can't get through the work in progress, try a poem, or a short story. Try writing a diary entry. Just write something. That usually does the trick with me.
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