Ask the Author: Sharon Ervin
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Sharon Ervin
WAIT, WHAT?, THE BRIDGE (by David McCullough), and SHADOW OF A DOUBT.
Sharon Ervin
I am observant. Watching and listening produce a world of ideas. We are told to write what we know. Pay attention. It's easy peasy.
Sharon Ervin
I'm working on a true crime story, giving it a fictional twist. Writing it is painful. I've stopped three times now only to begin again. This third beginning has a heroine who is strong enough to carry me. Writing is strange. There is a place I call "the zone." Most writers know it. When I get comfortably seated there, it's like watching a movie. The plot and scenes and characters roll, my fingers type, and time passes unmarked.
Sharon Ervin
Don't plan to get rich from writing. Don't plan to get famous. Write because it's what you do. If your lack of success breaks your heart, don't do it. If you can stop, do! If you can't stop, you're probably a writer. I asked a quilter friend if she were paid per stitch, how much her quilts would cost? She whooped. The joy has to come from the doing. If it doesn't give you pleasure, quit. Flipping burgers produces a better hourly wage.
Sharon Ervin
Writing is therapeutic. If I'm happy or sad or angry––whatever the emotion reigns––writing relaxes me back into contentment.
Sharon Ervin
I don't believe in writer's block. All I have to do is sit still a few quiet moments and ideas crowd each other for thinking space.
Sharon Ervin
I live in McAlester, Oklahoma, home of the state's maximum security prison. When a man on death row, scheduled for execution, had an abscessed tooth, it had to be fixed, immediately. When another had tonsillitis, there was another furor. Schedule to die, a prisoner must be in top physical condition. Pictures indicated these guys often are in prime shape, physically. Obviously, they work out. Mentally, emotionally, spiritually, they might be warped, but why throw out the baby with the bathwater? They could be ideal organ donors. A lethal injection destroys viable organs. Writers' imaginations carry them into strange places. With this information, mine produced JINGO STREET. It is women's fiction, not exactly a romance.
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