Ask the Author: Cecilia M. Fernandez
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Cecilia M. Fernandez
I spend a lot of time "prewriting" which allows me to make notes and actually write segments and sections of a book in a nonlinear fashion. This takes the anxiety out of writing and destroys the psychological resistance to writing.
Cecilia M. Fernandez
Writing gives me a purpose for living. As a writer I escape the mundane into a world I embellish through my own code of aesthetics. To live in that world is a privilege and to share it with readers who call or email me is like no other experience in life.
Cecilia M. Fernandez
Get into a writing class or critique group as soon as you have that first manuscript written.
Cecilia M. Fernandez
I'm collecting ideas and research for my second book which takes up where Leaving Little Havana leaves off. I'm thinking of a title now, and this is what rings in my ears: Won't Quit Til I'm A Star.
Cecilia M. Fernandez
I read authors like Joan Didion, Virginia Woolf, Anais Nin and Simone de Beauvoir to get my voice flowing. These writers provide an outlook on life I feel compelled to emulate in my writing.
Cecilia M. Fernandez
This book has been in my imagination for decades. But it wasn't until I took a writing class with Dan Wakefield at FIU that I realized all the essays I was writing for the course belonged in a book.
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