Ask the Author: Sandra Warren
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Sandra Warren
The idea for my latest book, "We Bought A WWII Bomber: The Untold Story of a Michigan High School, a B-17 Bomber & The Blue Ridge Parkway," came from a series of incidents that took place at my high school, South High in Grand Rapids, Michigan, during WWII.
It was a story that was waiting to tell, especially after I, along with a classmate, solved the mystery of what happened to the bomber, seventy-one years later.
It was a story that was waiting to tell, especially after I, along with a classmate, solved the mystery of what happened to the bomber, seventy-one years later.
Sandra Warren
Writing is something that eats at your soul until you take pen in hand or computer keyboard and get to work.
Sandra Warren
I'm currently working on promotion for my new book after which I'll re-edit and prepare for publication a novel about two brothers whose lives were changed forever when one was lost on the Orphan Train and the other spends the next fifty years searching for him. Tentative title: They Called Me Blue.
Sandra Warren
1. Read as much as possible, all kinds of books.
2. Study the CRAFT of writing.
3. Learn genre formats and expectations. Each genre has very specific attributes.
4. Join a critique group or find several writer's who can help you with your work.
4. Study agents and publishers - send for their Submission Guidelines. Each agent and publisher has their own specific guidelines.
5. Never give up!
2. Study the CRAFT of writing.
3. Learn genre formats and expectations. Each genre has very specific attributes.
4. Join a critique group or find several writer's who can help you with your work.
4. Study agents and publishers - send for their Submission Guidelines. Each agent and publisher has their own specific guidelines.
5. Never give up!
Sandra Warren
Interacting with readers, especially children. It's interesting to hear what others see and read into your work, often things you never intended good and bad. It's always surprising.
Sandra Warren
I try to write right through it starting with, "I can't think of a single thing to write about today. I was hoping to work on my novel about a cat but I can't think of a thing to say about that darn cat. etc. etc."
Once I start writing about not being able to write, I'll find I'm writing myself right out of being blocked.
Once I start writing about not being able to write, I'll find I'm writing myself right out of being blocked.
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