Ask the Author: Don Trowden
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Don Trowden
Coast of France with Proust and Albertine for the summer.
Don Trowden
Why was I born?
Don Trowden
Jane and Edward Rochester from Jane Eyre. The author reveals with words the magical mysteries and power of love as well as any writer I have read.
Don Trowden
My brilliant Asperger's brother committed suicide. It was an extremely emotional time and I needed to explore the whys, so No One Ran to the Altar was born from the ashes of this family tragedy.
Don Trowden
Life events inspire me. My writing is a form of catharsis and the best writing occurs when the subconscious is providing lots of good material.
Don Trowden
The final volume in the Normal Family trilogy, which takes place twenty years from now.
Don Trowden
Keep on writing while submitting to agents. Publishing has consolidated down to the point where who you are is their main concern, and whether what you have written has a marketing handle. If that is not who you want to be as a writer, then go ahead and self-publish.
Don Trowden
The challenge of creating characters and a structure that allows for interesting juxtapositions: humor and pain, love and hate, thought and action.
Don Trowden
Move onto a different part of the novel. Keep writing, even if it is off in a different section.
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