Ask the Author: Jill H. O’Bones
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Jill H. O’Bones
Write about what YOU enjoy, not what others enjoy, because if you don't love what you are writing about, you won't write.
Jill H. O’Bones
I've always enjoyed making up stories, I still have my story about a super dog that I wrote in elementary school. Writing for me, has come in spurts, like a hobby, something will get my attention; a dream, something someone said, something that I heard about in the news, or I just asked, 'what would happen if...?' And I would write, but never a complete story, that didn't happen until 2010. I woke up from a dream, wrote down the idea, then a few weeks later another dream, and when I wrote that down, it kept going. That story is waiting for a rewrite, as is the idea for the story that hit me after my son asked, 'what would you do if your story was made into a movie?'
But when I wrote 'A Vow of Tears', which was at first titled 'Reality', the writing bug and taken me over and I wrote and wrote and wrote.
And then I found Createspace and I thought it would be cool to put my story into book form; something for my son to be able to show his kids and tell them that their Grandmother wrote it. I never intended to publish, publish it, that came after a few friends asked me for copies, and then for the sequel.
My son is who inspired me to take my hobby and become a writer. He was the inspiration for Eric in 'A Vow of Tears', and what I would do to protect him. The vampires came in when I asked myself, "What if?"
But when I wrote 'A Vow of Tears', which was at first titled 'Reality', the writing bug and taken me over and I wrote and wrote and wrote.
And then I found Createspace and I thought it would be cool to put my story into book form; something for my son to be able to show his kids and tell them that their Grandmother wrote it. I never intended to publish, publish it, that came after a few friends asked me for copies, and then for the sequel.
My son is who inspired me to take my hobby and become a writer. He was the inspiration for Eric in 'A Vow of Tears', and what I would do to protect him. The vampires came in when I asked myself, "What if?"
Jill H. O’Bones
Play around with the characters, make them do something that wasn't planned. (I did once make the M.C. kill her lover once.)
Leave the computer on, but go and do something else, dishes, clean the stalls, mow the lawn, etc.
If something like that doesn't work, I'll stop writing for a few days, and not think about the story. That makes the characters mad and they start speaking, very loudly!
Leave the computer on, but go and do something else, dishes, clean the stalls, mow the lawn, etc.
If something like that doesn't work, I'll stop writing for a few days, and not think about the story. That makes the characters mad and they start speaking, very loudly!
Jill H. O’Bones
There are so many things I love about writing. The first is the ability to create new worlds, characters, and events, another is an outlet to express myself, either wishes, fears, and pet peeves.
Jill H. O’Bones
Presently I'm working on the 1st draft of my NaNo 2013 novel, a fantasy with unicorns, centaurs, and fairies. I ended the month of November with 50,029 words, but now the novel is almost to 150,000.
The main idea for the story was inspired by my Grandmother's home in the river valley. I can remember spending hours walking alone in the woods, which were magical, and the horses were unicorns. Other parts of the story came to me in dreams, which I wrote down not knowing what story they belonged to until I started to write it. (Quite a few of my stories either begin as a thought or a dream, or those ideas get added to a story that I didn't even know they belonged to.)
The main idea for the story was inspired by my Grandmother's home in the river valley. I can remember spending hours walking alone in the woods, which were magical, and the horses were unicorns. Other parts of the story came to me in dreams, which I wrote down not knowing what story they belonged to until I started to write it. (Quite a few of my stories either begin as a thought or a dream, or those ideas get added to a story that I didn't even know they belonged to.)
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