Ask the Author: Rebecca Warner
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Rebecca Warner
Personally, I don't get down on myself, I don't spiral into depression, I don't beat myself up for not being able to write a thousand words first thing in the morning. That would create a cycle that would be hard to exit. Instead, I do a chore or two that needs to be done, and create a sense of accomplishment, which carries over to when I next approach of my computer. (Sometimes I have to sneak up on it!)
Rebecca Warner
The ability to put my own thoughts down, and run with them, without having a "boss" (other than my eventual readers) evaluating me as I do so.
Rebecca Warner
As Mark Twain said, "Write about what you know."
I agree, but do a lot of research to back it up! Intelligently incorporate that research into what you know and are writing about. You'll find your own ideas flow much better when you can bolster them with truth and facts.
I agree, but do a lot of research to back it up! Intelligently incorporate that research into what you know and are writing about. You'll find your own ideas flow much better when you can bolster them with truth and facts.
Rebecca Warner
In keeping with my feminist leanings and writings, I am working on the first of a series of relationship self-help books for women. I wrote a romance advice column for a local periodical for three years. I received hundreds of letters and emails asking for advice. One thing I learned during those three years is that relationship issues are remarkably similar, and the same issues crop up over and over, but in different forms. I want to give women the ability to "repair" the basic problems that cause the same unfortunate issues to keep surfacing with different men. For example: You find that in every relationship you have, a man starts out hot and heavy, calling and texting constantly, and then it slows down, and eventually stops. The question of WHY? has to be explored. Could it be that every single man is a runner, or could it be something the woman is doing to make every man run? No blame is placed! It's just a matter of adjusting beliefs and behavior so that it does not keep occurring over and over. Women have very powerful built-in tools to help them overcome relationship difficulties. I want to help them find and properly use those tools.
Rebecca Warner
I am always writing in my head, and if I am not at my computer, I email myself (at a different email address) from my phone or Kindle, so that I don't forget my thoughts, and what I wanted to write about. This gives me a good place to start from when I sit down at my computer to write again.The ideas that were inspired when I was away from my computer are there in writing, in an email, for me to revisit. I now have a place to launch from, an I am re-inspired. I find this much better than racking my brain to remember what I wanted to say, or trying to come up with a new stream of thought when my brain is "cold."
Rebecca Warner
The idea for DOUBLING BACK TO LOVE was conceived as I became increasingly alarmed by how women are being attacked for their sexuality in the current political climate. During the 1970s and 1980s, when I was living in Miami as a single woman, my girlfriends and I reveled in our freedom, our independence, our sexuality, and our ability to have sex with a number of men without fear of pregnancy. We talked about our relationships and our sexual experiences candidly, and often. We were not indiscriminate, but we did not feel guilty about having sex with a man who wasn't a serious boyfriend, fiancee or husband. It wasn't about commitment, marriage, or exclusivity; it was simply about our own sexual gratification. Men had long been able to enjoy that kind of sexual freedom, and it was our turn. I wanted to explore that same kind of independent sexuality in 2014, and I did so through my character, Alexis (Lexi) Avery, a woman who is a composite of me and my girlfriends from that time.
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