Ask the Author: Sherrie Lowe
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Sherrie Lowe
My health, and indeed it is, it's covered in my 2nd memoir Better or Dead. When I was 40 I got divorced and had two teenage sons to bring up singlehandedly. I had a job that I loved and had worked hard for, learning support assistant in a mainstream high school, I was a valued member of a team and I was also providing for myself and my sons, such a sense of achievement. As the saying goes though pride comes before a fall and I began to get strange attacks of weakness for no particular reason and within a few months I was at times bedridden, a difficult situation with children to bring up. There followed many tests all coming back negative, on paper I was perfectly well but my body was saying otherwise. The mystery was, what was the illness?
Sherrie Lowe
'I beg you, no,' came female screams in the listed Tudor house. When Ashley pushed open the door the room was empty save for the creak creak as the rocking chair rocked gently, withholding its secrets.
Sherrie Lowe
It would have to be Hogwarts. What would I do there? I'd enjoy experimenting with spells, steering well clear of Avada Kadavera if I've spelt that right. As I can't travel in real life due to health reasons in my own novels I send my characters to places I've been and loved and also places I'd like to visit if I were well. Google is a wonderful way to travel without leaving my recliner chair. I've just virtually been to the Lake District UK and am off to Guernsey for my next virtual trip, both places I've been in my youth.
Sherrie Lowe
I have read Pit of Vipers by Millie Thom, an excellent read set in the 800s UK during the Viking era, book two in the Sons of Kings trilogy, I have read book one and will read book three. I am reading the republished edition of First Breath by Maureen Turner, a fantasy romance about a drawing coming to life! Another superb read, Elfin is a wonderful character who you love to hate. I am also part way through When the Dogs Don't Bark by Angela Gallop a memoir by a forensic scientist. Very interesting to read how crimes have been solved.
Sherrie Lowe
I can honestly say that it doesn't happen to me often. I'm not usually stuck for where the story is going to lead. My problem is my health. I suffer from M.E and many times I haven't got the energy to think let alone write so I can go for weeks without writing a word, thus losing momentum. I suppose I deal with it by jotting lots of notes down as ideas come, then it isn't to difficult to pick up the story again.
Sherrie Lowe
Seeing all of your characters come to life. Seeing your imagination take the form of words. Escaping into a world of make believe that you alone control.
Sherrie Lowe
Hmm, the same advice that I give to myself, keep at it. If you love to write you will do it despite success being elusive. It is that desire to see a story take shape that I think keeps many people opening their word docs.
Sherrie Lowe
I've just finished Over A Spitfire, a story of reincarnation which begins during WWII, set around the ferry pilots of the Air Transport Auxiliary, and ends in the 1960s, with an epilogue in 1983. It encompasses both lesbian and heterosexual love stories and part 2 is set largely in the afterlife - or at least my perception of it. I'm just taking a short break before continuing a story I began several years ago called A Treasure Lost, book 4 in my Willow's Dip series. It also has a supernatural flavour with one of the main characters giving her point of view from the spirit world. I like a bit of supernatural!
Sherrie Lowe
I've always had a notion to write a memoir covering my mum's death from breast cancer when I was a child but I didn't get started on Shadow Across the Sun until I was 40 when I came down with M.E and had to finish work. Now I get bursts of inspiration, often when I'm in the bath or just before I wake in the morning. Some of my best ideas have come to me in dreams. I keep notepads upstairs to jot them all down before I forget them.
Sherrie Lowe
The idea for Over A Spitfire, my new release came from my son Mark who suggested a story of reincarnation. It is explained further in the blog post The Germination of Over A Spitfire.
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Great answer, Sherrie!
Oct 08, 2021 01:08AM · flag
Oct 08, 2021 01:10AM · flag