Ask the Author: Lori-Suzanne Dell
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Lori-Suzanne Dell
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Lori-Suzanne Dell
Want to win an autographed copy of my novel Texas City: Love amid the ruins? All you have to do is Follow me on Goodreads. A winner will be chosen on March 1st, 2019 from the followers. Good luck!
Lori-Suzanne Dell
I am a historian. I study history. Sometimes history is so impressive that one cannot help but be inspired by a story, or a person, or an event. The history of the Texas City Disaster of April 16th, 1947 is one of those stories. I am consistently surprised at how many people had never heard of the disaster, which stands alongside the infamy of the Japanese Imperial attack on Pearl Harbor and the unthinkable sinking of the RMS Titanic. I wanted to create a way to introduce people to the disaster. A way that might appeal to those who do not like to read non-fiction. So, I wrote it into a romantic novel.
Lori-Suzanne Dell
I only chose topics that have inspired me or ideas that I really love. Writing about that really excites me.
Lori-Suzanne Dell
I am currently promoting "Texas City: Love amid the ruins" and rewriting "The Quill & The Bayonet" for a second edition. All of this while I am researching my next book "FDR: Unprecedented and Unusual."
Lori-Suzanne Dell
Got a great story? Got an idea that is amazing? Are you just dying to tell your story? Then, my advice is this. Shut up! A writer's creativity is precious. The story that is created must be told. Therefore, being a writer, your story belongs on the page. Don't waste your gift by sitting around telling it all to your friends or family. The ability to finish a novel is an endurance race. Many writers run out of steam and never begin, let alone finish, their work because they run out of steam. Keep the story churning in your mind. let the steam-pressure build. If you open your mouth you expel steam. You lose pressure. Let the pressure grow and when you can no longer contain it, then sit down and let it out. But, put it on the page, no in your friends' ears.
Lori-Suzanne Dell
For me, with fiction, its the imaginative process. I love to create. In non-fiction, I adore the process of research and learning. Then, turning all of that into something people can be entertained or informed by really makes me smile.
Lori-Suzanne Dell
Writer's block is a mythical gauntlet. The myth relates to the problem of a writer, who was proceeding along quite well, becoming suddenly unable to continue. This problem is signal to the writer that he or she has written something that their imagination cannot logically continue from. In other words, you have just written a passage, sentence, whatever, that has no logical followup. Try removing the last sentence, or paragraph, and rewrite it completely differently. Let the character say something else, or do something else, or let the scene be totally different. Remove the impediment that stopped your creativity and let the follow continue.
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