Ask the Author: Jennifer Froelich
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Jennifer Froelich
1. Read copiously -- check out stacks of books at the library and read all you can. It will help you develop your own style.
2. Write horribly -- If you only write when you feel like you're good at it, you'll never get anywhere. Keep writing, even when it's awful. You can edit later.
3. Research in the kids' section -- Nonfiction geared toward children is succinct and a great place to start learning about facts you wish to work into your fiction. You'll be surprised at how much you can learn in a short amount of time, leaving more time and better focus for the more detailed research you'll need to do with more thorough works.
2. Write horribly -- If you only write when you feel like you're good at it, you'll never get anywhere. Keep writing, even when it's awful. You can edit later.
3. Research in the kids' section -- Nonfiction geared toward children is succinct and a great place to start learning about facts you wish to work into your fiction. You'll be surprised at how much you can learn in a short amount of time, leaving more time and better focus for the more detailed research you'll need to do with more thorough works.
Jennifer Froelich
The key to overcoming writer's block is to remember that I'm a professional. If writing is a hobby, I can feel free to engage in it only when the mood strikes me, but if it is my job, my career, my profession, then I must write and so I do. That doesn't mean I will always write brilliantly, but I will always write. Somehow or other, that will get me through any creative block.
Jennifer Froelich
Inspiration comes from life -- both the every day moments and the out of the ordinary ones. But just as much as I need inspiration to write, I need to write to stay inspired. Some days that means writing some pretty poor pages just so that I have something to build on, rework or change altogether.
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