Ask the Author: Gabriele Wills
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Gabriele Wills
Read, write, re-write, hone your skills, persevere. Create a world that readers can climb into, in which they can live each moment with the characters. So much of that is in the details, and with historical fiction, that means getting the underlying facts right. It's also important to love what you're doing, and be completely immersed in the creative process.
Gabriele Wills
Catherine and Heathcliff, because theirs is such an intensely emotional and dramatic relationship, augmented by the bleak, compelling setting.
Gabriele Wills
Do research, which usually turns up a new plot idea or a character who helps to move the story in an interesting and perhaps unexpected direction. Sometimes I just ask my characters. :)
Gabriele Wills
Creating a world that I and readers can get lost in. I love the freedom and the entire creative process, enjoy what I learn in my research, and am thrilled when readers are moved and entertained by my work.
Gabriele Wills
Places inspire me, especially those that have a rich or storied past. Research then turns up fascinating, lesser known, often quirky facts that I love to weave into a tale.
Gabriele Wills
My latest novel continues to follow the lives, loves, and adventures of the Wyndham family and their friends, familiar to those who've read The Muskoka Novels, though another generation. The characters are so real to me that I couldn't leave them behind.
Gabriele Wills
I'm currently finishing a screenplay based on the first two "Muskoka Novels" - set during WW1- at the request of a filmmaker. Then it's back to Book 4 in the Muskoka series, this one set during WW2.
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