Ask the Author: Leta Serafim
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Leta Serafim
I am working on the third book in my Greek Island Mystery Series, From the Devil's Farm, which is set on the island of Sifnos.
Leta Serafim
My advice for aspiring writers is to stay true to your vision in spite of everything and write and rewrite and then write some more. I wish I could say practice makes perfect, but my experience is there is no 'perfect' in writing as I am never satisfied with what I produce. I just keep trying to get better, to nail that phrase, that description, that character. Sometimes it works, most of time it's a struggle.
Leta Serafim
The best thing about being a writer is when something unexpected emerges, a bit of poetry you didn't know you had in you.
Leta Serafim
When I get writer's block, I try and trick myself by putting the book aside and writing something else. One year, it was Christmas cards. After I wrote notes to about a dozen people, I was able to get back to work.
Leta Serafim
I can't remember a time when I didn't write. I used to write stories when I was ten or eleven years old, illustrate them and read them to my ever-suffering little sister. And then when I was a living in Greece and struggling to adapt to the culture, writing was how I dealt with my loneliness and homesickness. It has always been a source of comfort to me.
Leta Serafim
Most of my ideas come from evens I witness. For example, my latest book, When the Devil's Idle, was inspired by an encounter I saw on a beach in Greece a decade ago.
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