Ask the Author: Sheila Blanchette
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Sheila Blanchette
Music was what inspired me. The idea popped into my head while listening to an obscure Bb Dylan song Fourth Time Around. "I stood there and hummed. I tapped on her drum...and gallantly handed her my last piece of gum."
I can't explain it but an entire story unfolded. Music does that to me.
I can't explain it but an entire story unfolded. Music does that to me.
Sheila Blanchette
I don't have writer's block. I can't stop writing.
Sheila Blanchette
Working in your pajamas.
Sheila Blanchette
Just do it. If I can do it, anyone can. Just open the blank screen and start writing. You can't edit something if there's nothing there to edit. Get it down and fix it later.
Sheila Blanchette
I have finished a third novel. It is from a male point of view. Samuel Ryder is a middle aged man who's wife has left him to run a food truck in Denver. He has worked in sales all his life but now writes books late at night while working at the front desk of a hotel. The story goes back and forth throughout the decades of his life and there is a lot of rock 'n roll.
Sheila Blanchette
I got the idea for Take Me Home while on a road trip out west. My youngest daughter was finishing school in Denver and working at Yellowstone National Park for the summer so my husband and I drove her out there.
I fell in love with Eastern Idaho near Henry's Fork, just west of Yellowstone. The rolling potato fields set agains the backdrop of the Tetons were beautiful. We stayed in a fishing lodge and a very flirtatious man from New Zealand was in the room next to us. A chapter popped into my head. It didn't end up being the first chapter but it got the book rolling.
I fell in love with Eastern Idaho near Henry's Fork, just west of Yellowstone. The rolling potato fields set agains the backdrop of the Tetons were beautiful. We stayed in a fishing lodge and a very flirtatious man from New Zealand was in the room next to us. A chapter popped into my head. It didn't end up being the first chapter but it got the book rolling.
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