Ask the Author: Pam Young
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Pam Young
I could always count on Mercedes Lackay for a good read. I'd go to any of her fantasy worlds and serve as a master's apprentice.
Pam Young
The pile of books by my reading chair includes:
The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell by Aldous Huxley
Dewdrops of Wisdom, by The Foundation of I, Inc.
Life After Death by Deepak Chopra
Fractal Time & Divine Matrix by Gregg Braden
The Genie in Your Genes by Dawson Church
State of Wonder by Ann Patchett
The Magician's Elephant by Kate DiCamillo
Tick Tock by Dean Kontz
(and possibly some light-weight fiction)
The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell by Aldous Huxley
Dewdrops of Wisdom, by The Foundation of I, Inc.
Life After Death by Deepak Chopra
Fractal Time & Divine Matrix by Gregg Braden
The Genie in Your Genes by Dawson Church
State of Wonder by Ann Patchett
The Magician's Elephant by Kate DiCamillo
Tick Tock by Dean Kontz
(and possibly some light-weight fiction)
Pam Young
The best thing about being a writer is being to share what I've learned now that I'm no longer teaching. It's a way to express myself that I've relied on my entire life with journals. Now I'm doing it with books! I'm currently blogging about "My Weird Indy Publishing Project," applying to a non-fiction (memoir) series what I've learned from sci-fi writers about marketing. The project is "weird" because no one has done this before and marketing a memoir is next to impossible unless you're famous. I'm not.
Pam Young
Writer's block usually means I'm not really in love with the project I'm doing or that I have ambivalent feelings about it. When it (the block) happens, I ask myself "Why are you writing this?" and the answer should be in a single sentence, an elevator pitch kind of thing. If I can't do that, I know I'm not clear and anything I do write will be without focus. I get clear by doing something else -- like house-cleaning!
Pam Young
What really killed my nemesis?
In BURNOUT -- How a Desert Lizard Restored My Faith ( Book 1 of my Burnout to Bliss Series, non-fiction) I briefly related the story about how my best friend betrayed me when she became department chairman.
Many years later, her death by "unknown causes" became the topic of the day -- in grocery stores, the post office, and everywhere else in this small town.
In BURNOUT -- How a Desert Lizard Restored My Faith ( Book 1 of my Burnout to Bliss Series, non-fiction) I briefly related the story about how my best friend betrayed me when she became department chairman.
Many years later, her death by "unknown causes" became the topic of the day -- in grocery stores, the post office, and everywhere else in this small town.
Pam Young
Can't say I have a favorite fictional couple. Most of the books I read aren't about couples. If you're following the Burnout to Bliss series, you'll see why. In that memoir, beginning with BURNOUT it will be crystal clear.
Pam Young
Just write. It's what writers do. If writing is your passion, then you must do it. if it is not your passion, I'd skip it altogether!
Pam Young
Two projects are calling--a memoir about a nearly two-year walkabout that changed my life and a young adult book about a girl with powers.
LOL! That changed the minute I started writing about that personal spiritual journey (walkabout). As described in the "Afterword" of BURNOUT, while I was writing that story, I was guided to do it...differently.
And, instead of one long book, the story of my two-year journey is now showing up as the Burnout to Bliss series.
Book 1, BURNOUT -- How a Desert Lizard Restored My Faith, was published in November 2016. Book 2, CYCLING in the CITY -- How I Got My Confidence Back was published March 2017 and is a radically different way of writing than Book 1.
I had almost finished Book 3, about the concept of "surrender" -- letting go of "having to know what I'm doing" and "being in control" and allowing Spirit or Intuition to guide me, instead -- when I was stopped again! Now I'm really interested to see where it will go!
Meanwhile, I'm catching up on LIFE: managing the triplex I live in with the early spring and the shift of tenants, and "clearing my clutter" -- "getting ready to move in an instant" while having no idea whatsoever where I'll be moving.
"Life is rich and full of wonder -- always, in all ways." Ann Parrott-Patchett
LOL! That changed the minute I started writing about that personal spiritual journey (walkabout). As described in the "Afterword" of BURNOUT, while I was writing that story, I was guided to do it...differently.
And, instead of one long book, the story of my two-year journey is now showing up as the Burnout to Bliss series.
Book 1, BURNOUT -- How a Desert Lizard Restored My Faith, was published in November 2016. Book 2, CYCLING in the CITY -- How I Got My Confidence Back was published March 2017 and is a radically different way of writing than Book 1.
I had almost finished Book 3, about the concept of "surrender" -- letting go of "having to know what I'm doing" and "being in control" and allowing Spirit or Intuition to guide me, instead -- when I was stopped again! Now I'm really interested to see where it will go!
Meanwhile, I'm catching up on LIFE: managing the triplex I live in with the early spring and the shift of tenants, and "clearing my clutter" -- "getting ready to move in an instant" while having no idea whatsoever where I'll be moving.
"Life is rich and full of wonder -- always, in all ways." Ann Parrott-Patchett
Pam Young
To begin, I am obviously not a genre writer who cranks out three a year to a devoted following. Instead, I write when I have something to say--that is, the inspiration came first.
Pam Young
My last book was Rethinking the Law of Attraction. I had just completed a Masters in Metaphysics about the spiritual law of attraction and was suddenly more conscious of how many people, especially in this rural mountain town, were talking about it--like seeing the VW everywhere once you've decided to buy one.
march 18, 2017 update: Last book was Book 2 of the Burnout to Bliss series, CYCLING in the CITY -- How I Got My Confidence Back.
march 18, 2017 update: Last book was Book 2 of the Burnout to Bliss series, CYCLING in the CITY -- How I Got My Confidence Back.
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