Ask the Author: Laura Kirwan
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Laura Kirwan
Honestly, I don't where this stuff comes from. The idea for the whole series sort us just deposited itself in my head and here we are. I'm a pantser all the way-- I make this stuff up as I go. I know where everybody's ending up and I've got ideas for the future books, but the characters just sort of do what they want most of the time. One-off walk-ons turn into major players, some of them never show up all, some of them are sitting back and waiting for a different series; they're an unruly bunch.
Laura Kirwan
I remind myself how very, very much I do not want to practice law again. The more I write, the closer I get to ensuring my continued non-practicing status.
Laura Kirwan
"Crushed," the second book in the City of Eldrich series -- here's the blurb from my web site:
Love is in the air . . . at potentially lethal levels. One of Eldrich's witches casts a love spell, which goes spectacularly wrong. Meaghan Keele -- impervious to magic -- has to figure out what happened and how to fix it before everybody kills each other.
Love is in the air . . . at potentially lethal levels. One of Eldrich's witches casts a love spell, which goes spectacularly wrong. Meaghan Keele -- impervious to magic -- has to figure out what happened and how to fix it before everybody kills each other.
Laura Kirwan
Write. Edit. Repeat. Find beta readers who will tell you what they really think. Learn about the business of publishing. Regardless of what publishing path you pursue, the days of being able to just focus on writing because someone else will take care of the grubby commerce side of it all are over. If you want to do this as more than a hobby, you need to know your industry. On the creative side, trust yourself. Most writers are voracious readers. Since childhood. Which means you've been studying how to do this all your life. You know a lot more about story telling and writing than you realize. That said, you don't know everything. Nobody does. Ask for help and listen to what people tell you.
Laura Kirwan
It's fun. Just a whole lot of fun. Yeah, it's hard work, but most days it doesn't feel like it.
Laura Kirwan
The thing that's really worked best for me is the project target thingy on Scrivener. If you give it a deadline date, it will calculate how many words you have to write each day. Somehow having somebody else, even a computer program, saying "do this much today" makes a huge difference.
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