Ask the Author: Colette Victor
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Colette Victor
I'm very lucky that I haven't had to deal with this. I have loads of ideas and not enough time to write them all down. I hope it's not something I have to deal with in the future.
Colette Victor
Getting to live inside other peoples' heads, creating new worlds and realities, escaping the day-to-dayness of our own existence.
Colette Victor
Join a writers' group. The feedback from like-minded, supportive fellow writers is invaluable in your growth to becoming a good writer.
Colette Victor
I've just finished the first draft of a YA novel about a young girl coming to terms with and accepting who she is. Not only is she gay, but she doesn't fit into the mould her parents have cast for her either. The challenge of self-acceptance has led to her losing the first girl she fell in love with. As she struggles with her identity, she tries to win back the girl.
Colette Victor
I've been writing since I was nine. My second grade teacher in South Africa, Miss Damant, had read us 'Charlotte's Web' in class and then challenegd us to write an alternative ending to the book because we were all so up set that Charlotte died. Miss Damant liked my story so much she sent it to the Dundee Chronicle (Dundee, South Africa, that is) where it was published. I was hooked. I knew I was going to be a writer.
Colette Victor
What to do with lobsters in a place like Klippiesfontein started out as a short story for a competition for the writers' magazine, Mslexia. I was encouraged by the members of my writers' group to develop the idea further and that's what I did.
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