Ask the Author: Jennie Taylor
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Jennie Taylor
There is! I know it has been a long time coming, but it is going to be out sometime in the first half of next year. It is written, I just need to finish up the editing and formatting before sending it out into the world.
Sorry it has been so long coming, I just seem to always have a thousand other projects intruding on the time I spend on this one. But I promise, Brynne and her friends will be returning in 2019.
Sorry it has been so long coming, I just seem to always have a thousand other projects intruding on the time I spend on this one. But I promise, Brynne and her friends will be returning in 2019.
Jennie Taylor
This summer I plan to read the rest of the Outliers trilogy (I am just about done with The Outliers and really like it), The Dry, and a couple of Jonathan Kellerman books. I am also really hoping to have time to reread the Dark Tower series before the movie comes out, but I doubt I'll have time to read them all, so maybe the first book or two.
Jennie Taylor
This is a really tough question, and I had to think about it for a long time. There are just so many great couples to choose from. I went back and forth, but eventually landed on a couple named Hazumu and Tomari from an anime I saw called 'Kashimashi: Girl Meets Girl'. It was just such a fun and wonderful story, and I really loved the way the relationship progressed and how they depicted it in this story. You can see from the very beginning that Tomari loves Hazumu, just hasn't completely realized it yet, and you get to sort of witness her starting to understand her feelings. At the same time you get to see Hazumu being torn apart by loving Tomari, but feeling obligated to be with Yasuna. It was a very wonderful story, and I love to watch it again about once a year.
Jennie Taylor
Write. A lot. Write stories you will never publish and never show anyone else at first, to take some of the pressure off, but write. Write badly, knowing nobody but you will ever see it. And If you can't come up with a full story or don't have the time, write characters. Write scenes. Think up a character and write a couple of scenes with them. This should help you develop a style and a feel for what kind of writer you are.
Also is important is reading a lot. The more you read the more feel you'll have for what makes up the necessary components of a story. You won't even know you're learning it, you'll just start to recognize when the essential components are there. And if you read a lot then you're going to come across times when you see things that just didn't work the way the author had hoped. When you recognize those then you'll know some of what not to do. Like everyone, you'll end up doing it anyway sometimes (I sure do), but it's good to have a solid basis to start with.
If you can, take some writing classes. There are some online, there are some at community colleges, and if you're still in high school you can sometimes take writing classes there. If you can't do that, there are even books you can buy or find at the library with tips for writers.
Also is important is reading a lot. The more you read the more feel you'll have for what makes up the necessary components of a story. You won't even know you're learning it, you'll just start to recognize when the essential components are there. And if you read a lot then you're going to come across times when you see things that just didn't work the way the author had hoped. When you recognize those then you'll know some of what not to do. Like everyone, you'll end up doing it anyway sometimes (I sure do), but it's good to have a solid basis to start with.
If you can, take some writing classes. There are some online, there are some at community colleges, and if you're still in high school you can sometimes take writing classes there. If you can't do that, there are even books you can buy or find at the library with tips for writers.
Jennie Taylor
The best part is just being able to do what I love doing. If I didn't have a passion for it I wouldn't be doing it. But a more specific answer would be that I absolutely love meeting my main characters. That may sound strange to some people, because they think I just make up my characters. That really isn't the case. Not completely. Sure, I get them started and rolling in the right direction, but once rolling I feel like I have very little conscious input into that character. They have a life of their own. I learn their history and personality as I go. And it's kind of odd, because I've even had characters that I had to stop writing because the more I learned about them the more I just couldn't stand them. When you're writing a character you are spending so much time with them, so it's very hard to spend that amount of time with someone you just can't stand.
Jennie Taylor
I don't often get writer's block. When I have had it in the past it has almost always been because of an outside stress, so dealing with that stress helps.
If I get stuck on a specific story I sometimes have to move along and write something else. I can then usually return to the story that had me stuck at a later time. Sometimes just moving to something completely different helps out. If I write something I would not normally write and something I don't even plan to finish then it lets me exercise my imagination a little.
If I get stuck on a specific story I sometimes have to move along and write something else. I can then usually return to the story that had me stuck at a later time. Sometimes just moving to something completely different helps out. If I write something I would not normally write and something I don't even plan to finish then it lets me exercise my imagination a little.
Jennie Taylor
I'm currently working on a story involving a 17 year old girl who is pulled into the faerie realm by her best friend. The best friend is secretly a faerie princess, and is being forced by her father to pick a husband. She has a plan to trick her father into delaying that, and needs the main character's help. But things go wrong, and the main girl ends up stuck in the faerie realm. The book itself is done, I'm just doing some formatting and clean up tasks, so I'm planning a release in January 2016.
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