Ask the Author: Trudy Myers
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Trudy Myers
I start with a character or two. I think about what they do for a living, what their life has been like. Toss in a scene or two, a situation, stir it up, and wait for the character to start telling me their story.
Trudy Myers
I am writing a space (soap) opera, which I post as a blog fairly regularly. I am rewriting another of my 'Small Town Happiness' series set in Belgrade, Nebraska. And I am working on the rough draft of a 3rd romance in that series, this one set in Limon, Colorado.
Trudy Myers
Learn your English grammar. Get a copy of Strunk and White's "Elements of Style" and study it. That isn't to say you have to follow the rules slavishly, particularly when you are writing dialogue. But you should have a good grasp of the rules.
Trudy Myers
Telling stories.
Trudy Myers
I have found that when I have writer's block, I have taken my characters down a path that they don't like. I usually have to back-track a page or two and find where I sent them in the wrong direction, then change things to a new direction.
Trudy Myers
Sorry, I don't do horror.
Trudy Myers
It's a matter of what I pick up that looks interesting. I don't have a 'to be read' pile, unless you want to count all the thousands of books my husband and I own. And now we also have e-book readers!
Trudy Myers
It would have to be a medical mystery. My sister died at age 16 when her kidneys failed and only hours after she was given one of my father's kidneys. Six years later, my dad died of... kidney failure.
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