Ask the Author: Laura Garner
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Laura Garner
If I'm stumped, I start editing content I've already written. That gets me into the writing head space, and before I know it, I'm writing something new.
Laura Garner
I think creating engages the happiest part of your brain. And it's fun to watch your characters do things you hadn't planned; it means they are fully developed. Also, you're never alone!
Laura Garner
Write. You can only become a writer if you write.
Laura Garner
Having recently polished off both a contemporary romance (currently being "shopped") and my third Maddie Maxwell mystery, "Ball & Chain," I'm looking at my hatch of plot bunnies and deciding which one I want to develop next. I have quite a few!
Laura Garner
Hard to say, because I've always been a writer, creating characters and situations and even worlds for as long as I can remember. I wrote my first "book" when I was 8, about a four-year-old girl living on an island alone after her parents were killed in a boating accident. She stopped aging...
At any rate, my brain is always thinking about characters and what-ifs, to the point of it possibly being a psychological disorder (not really). I also participate in online writing challenges for fun. Sometimes I get entire new book ideas from that!
At any rate, my brain is always thinking about characters and what-ifs, to the point of it possibly being a psychological disorder (not really). I also participate in online writing challenges for fun. Sometimes I get entire new book ideas from that!
Laura Garner
I've been fascinated by the varieties of religious faith for years, and curious about the psychology behind it. Catholic mysticism is especially fascinating to me. I am a Christian myself, but am always asking questions. "Ball & Chain" feature a few characters with widely different types of faith, and no faith at all.
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