Ask the Author: Brenda Carre
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Brenda Carre
I am working on several projects right now. I write in multiple genres both long and short fiction, but the project dear to my heart and actively demanding attention right now is a massive and complex epic series with a very dark, devious and enigmatic antagonist.
Brenda Carre
My advice for aspiring writers is be a writer. Be inspiring not aspiring. As long as you aspire you will always be short of the mark. Inspire yourself. Believe in yourself, that you can do it. Do it. One of my characters told me early on in my career to go in the direction of 'yes'. I have done that ever since.
Brenda Carre
I get inspired to write by enchanting my muse with the sound of my fingers tapping the keyboard. If I write regularly and at a routine time it becomes a habit. Some days are harder than others but I sit down and get to work. There is no substitute for doing it. I get ideas all the time. Some of them get turned into stories and some don't. There usually has to be a spark of excitement there that makes me start writing, but beginning and pushing into a story is for me the only way to generate the momentum I need to keep going until I finish the first draft. I often warm up in the morning by writing in my journal. Sometimes I do this in a file on the computer and sometimes I write long hand. Ideas come from everywhere--from reading, from listening to music and from talking to people. It's the 'what ifs' I like to write about. I sold a short story this year that is coming out in 2016 called The Crow War of Willows Beach. The 'what if' I had to answer in that story was: what if the crows on this one beach aren't crows at all but the alternate forms of ghost children who have been enlisted into a magical war to save humanity. Once I asked myself this question, I had to write the story to find out the answer.
Brenda Carre
Thank you for this question. It's a good one. I was invited into the book bundle Edge of Never and decided I would write the origin story to the Epic Fantasy,Truth Seer, that I am currently writing. The invitation came at a perfect time, as I was stalled in my work in progress at a crucial point leading up to the climax. The climax is going to be huge and literally earth-shaking, but I needed to know why. I knew the origin story, Finnraziel, was going to be about betrayal and that the epic series must flow from that event. Now I am writing fast and furious to get to that earth-shaking end in Truth Seer. If you read my novella Finnraziel in the Edge of Never book bundle, you will have a teasing glimpse of what just may happen.
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