Ask the Author: L.E. Truscott
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L.E. Truscott
I'm currently working on the first book in a trilogy of young adult/mainstream crossover novels, which is called Black Spot and that I hope to release in 2016. It's the story of Livia, who lost her memory and her mother in a car accident six years ago. None of her memories have ever come back. But they slowly start to re-emerge when she meets Sebastian, the only person in her life who doesn't know her history and can't treat her differently because of it. But some of them don't quite match what she's been told. She's content with her life. So does she actually want to know?
I'll be doing final rewrites in the first half of 2016 and hoping for a mid-year release.
I'll be doing final rewrites in the first half of 2016 and hoping for a mid-year release.
L.E. Truscott
I started writing a blog in 2015 and a lot of the content was advice to other writers. I tried to make sure I wrote a lot of blog posts in advance and I eventually realised I had written enough to fill a book and that most of it wasn't scheduled to come out on my blog for months.
So I combined the blog posts and the result was Project December: A Book about Writing. It's a guide for writers and wannabe writers to getting started, developing characters and plots, the writing process, editing and what to do when the book is finished.
So I combined the blog posts and the result was Project December: A Book about Writing. It's a guide for writers and wannabe writers to getting started, developing characters and plots, the writing process, editing and what to do when the book is finished.
L.E. Truscott
The best thing about being a writer is that you don't need anybody's permission to do it.
L.E. Truscott
My inspiration comes from the things I see around me every day with the addition of one question – what if?
My entire theory of plot development is based around an unending series of questions and answers like a toddler continually asking, “Why?” Thankfully, these question and answer sessions mostly take place in my head where the world is shielded from it, only revealed when some poor unsuspecting person trying to be polite takes an interest and unleashes it from my interior monologue from where it spews forth.
I have also come up with what I like to call "The Ideas Generator". It’s a seven-step process that can be applied to a lot of stories already out there, which is why I think it will work for developing new stories.
Here’s how it works in a nutshell. You pick a genre. You pick a main character. You give them a past traumatic incident. You pick a second main character or a secondary character for the main character to interact with. You give the main character a profession. You introduce a trigger to add drama. And then you add an ending.
Sounds simple, right? You can read more about "The Ideas Generator" on my blog at this link: https://singlewhitefemalewriter.wordp...
My entire theory of plot development is based around an unending series of questions and answers like a toddler continually asking, “Why?” Thankfully, these question and answer sessions mostly take place in my head where the world is shielded from it, only revealed when some poor unsuspecting person trying to be polite takes an interest and unleashes it from my interior monologue from where it spews forth.
I have also come up with what I like to call "The Ideas Generator". It’s a seven-step process that can be applied to a lot of stories already out there, which is why I think it will work for developing new stories.
Here’s how it works in a nutshell. You pick a genre. You pick a main character. You give them a past traumatic incident. You pick a second main character or a secondary character for the main character to interact with. You give the main character a profession. You introduce a trigger to add drama. And then you add an ending.
Sounds simple, right? You can read more about "The Ideas Generator" on my blog at this link: https://singlewhitefemalewriter.wordp...
L.E. Truscott
Writing cannot be forced – or perhaps it’s more accurate to say that when it is the results are often so poor that you may as well not have bothered in the first place. Of course, I can’t speak for anyone except myself. But I like to think of writer’s block as my mind’s way of telling me that either:
1) I need a break, or
2) Whatever it is I’m writing, it’s not working and I need to stop and do some thinking about the writing (which leads back to point 1).
The only solution to writer’s block that I’ve found will work is to stop trying to force the writing to happen.
1) I need a break, or
2) Whatever it is I’m writing, it’s not working and I need to stop and do some thinking about the writing (which leads back to point 1).
The only solution to writer’s block that I’ve found will work is to stop trying to force the writing to happen.
L.E. Truscott
Every time I see someone describing themselves as an aspiring writer, I want to shout at them, “There’s no such thing! Being a writer is like being pregnant – you either are or you aren’t. So are you writing or not?” Because if you write, you’re a writer. And if you don’t, then you’re not.
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