Ask the Author: Kate Brown
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Kate Brown
Work through it is definitely not a term I use for writer's block. When I have trouble, I let my ADHD brain take over and I go down the YouTube/TikTok rabbit hole for a bit.
Don't do as I do.
Don't do as I do.
Kate Brown
God, this is a cliché, but... practice. For real. Sometimes, I'll find a great place outside if it's nice or think about a place I visited and try to recall every detail in word form. I'll make up an activity for my character to do - peeling an orange while watching tourists in a piazza in Rome. Maybe right next to the Vatican. Bring in the imagery, the smells, the sounds, what the character is thinking about and feeling. Write a few pages and do your best to make it feel like the reader is there.
Then, if it ends up being amazing, add it to a work you have (as long as it fits). Practice AND content.
Then, if it ends up being amazing, add it to a work you have (as long as it fits). Practice AND content.
Kate Brown
Revamping my first published work (The Rose Legends) so that it doesn't feel quite so immature. I'm debating whether or not to make it more of a *spicy* series. All characters involved in the spice are already of age.
Kate Brown
Seeing books I want to read helps a lot, actually. Even just going off of a great book cover. Beyond that, sometimes just the right show or movie will get me in the mood to at least write a couple of pages.
Kate Brown
I realized a lot of people (men, women, and all genders) deal with the *horrors* of online dating. While my stories aren't the worst that can happen, they're incredibly relatable content. So I decided to utilize my top notch humor and writing skills to come up with something people would just enjoy reading. For the cringe factor alone.
Kate Brown
Genealogy is one of my hobbies and there's a woman several generations back who, in the 1830's, came to the US with her only son. She had given birth while unmarried and remained so at least until her son was 14 (after they arrived in the US). The only documents I can find from their arrival are an immigration record and a ship manifest. After that, the woman disappears from record and her son arrives in Pennsylvania about 5 years later without her. I'd love to find out what happened to her, who the father was, why she remained alone, if her family shunned her or embraced her, etc.
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