Ask the Author: Lily Gardner
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Lily Gardner
Keep working. Usually the best writing days come after a bad day where everything I wrote was boring and cliche. And be sure to flick the editor/critic off your shoulder when you're trying to create new story.
Lily Gardner
Write every day, even if you can only commit to five minutes a day. And as Anne Lamott advises, allow yourself a shitty draft. Otherwise you'll find yourself tinkering with the first chapter for years and never get your story written.
Lily Gardner
I'm nearly done plotting my third Lennox Cooper book, ALL IN.
Lily Gardner
I don't wait for inspiration—if I did, I'd write three half-baked poems a year and that's it. I believe inspiration comes when you sit at your desk and work.
Lily Gardner
I was fascinated with a story I heard on the radio about a therapist who fell in love with a fake woman on a computer dating site. This became the inspiration for the title and one of the threads in BETTING BLIND.
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