Ask the Author: Elizabeth Mitchell
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Elizabeth Mitchell
Enjoy the effort as much as you can.
Elizabeth Mitchell
Paying attention.
Elizabeth Mitchell
I set a schedule that requires me to sit down and write something. And I read, which always causes something to begin.
Elizabeth Mitchell
Why was the hourglass running in a house that had been locked for a year?
Elizabeth Mitchell
If I am away from writing too long, I miss it, and that inspires me. Or I come across a life I want to tell. Usually that life holds a particular mystery and I think about it until I am able to ferret out the details and understand the person's emotional life as best I can.
Elizabeth Mitchell
I was in the manuscript division of the New York Public Library researching another topic, when I noticed they held the diary of the artist Bartholdi from when he first came to America in 1871. He was pitching the statue cold and that so contradicted what I thought the story of the statue to be, I was compelled to investigate further.
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