Ask the Author: Mimi Foster
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Mimi Foster
My most recent book, Maisy's Mirror, was kind of an 'aha' moment when I watched The Age of Adaline and kept thinking that there is so much that goes on in the spiritual world around us that we don't know or understand. What if someone really was stuck in time (like Adaline)? What if there really are ghosts? What would it be like for someone whose last contact with the world was seventy-five years ago - how much would things have changed? I was a huge fan of The Ghost and Mrs. Muir when I was growing up, and Maisy's Mirror has that kind of a feel with a love story attached.
Mimi Foster
I have a set time every morning that I write. Before I start a book, I have a pretty good outline of where the story is going. So when I wake up and it's my writing time, I'm usually excited about that particular scene and finding out what's going to happen. If I'm NOT excited about it or something just isn't flowing the way I want it to, I will go on to the next scene and come back to this one when I have more specific details of what's going on.
Mimi Foster
Write. Yes, it's trite, but you can't be a writer if you don't write. Everyday. Set a goal of something simple (500 words per day). Stick to it.
The other most important thing, to me, is not to edit your first draft. You will rewrite over and over and over again, but you don't have anything to rewrite until you have your first draft done. Let go of the 'editor' in you (your left brain) for your first draft. JUST WRITE.
The other most important thing, to me, is not to edit your first draft. You will rewrite over and over and over again, but you don't have anything to rewrite until you have your first draft done. Let go of the 'editor' in you (your left brain) for your first draft. JUST WRITE.
Mimi Foster
Allowing your characters to say things that we might not necessarily say in real life. I love the shock value of honesty, and it's fun to make up situations where people aren't expecting it.
Mimi Foster
I don't really experience it. I know my storyline pretty well going in and do a rough outline before I begin. When I get stuck on a part, I just go on to the next part and the one I was stuck on seems to work itself out.
Mimi Foster
I just finished book 3 in my Thunder on the Mountain series, THUNDER STORM. In THUNDER STORM and THUNDER STRUCK (book 2), there were journals of a long-ago ancestor found during the remodel of the Bed and Breakfast. I became so enamored with one of the characters in the journals, Willow, that I am now writing her story, set in the early 1900s, and tying it to the present-day family.
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