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Ronnie Allen

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Ronnie Allen is a New York City native, born and bred in Brooklyn, New York, where she was a teacher in the New York City Department of Education for 33 years including the obtaining of a New York State license as School Psychologist. Her various roles included classroom teacher, staff developer, crisis intervention specialist, and mentor for teachers who were struggling. Always an advocate for the child, Allen carries this through as a theme in her novel Gemini, with the reader seeing the horrors of child abuse through the eyes of three characters.

In the early 1990s she began a journey into holistic healing and alternative therapies and completed her PhD in Parapsychic Sciences in 2001.

Along the way, Allen has picked up many certifications ...more

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How do you deal with writer’s block?

Ronnie Allen This is a great question and my answer to many might be unusual. First, I never experience writer's block because I'm very focused and I'm a plotter. …moreThis is a great question and my answer to many might be unusual. First, I never experience writer's block because I'm very focused and I'm a plotter. I worked on plotting and researching Aries for a good five months before I sat a the laptop to type. Yes, I let my characters take over--I write in deep POV--and very often the plot goes into a different direction, but I make sure it works. I'm not afraid to cut. A motto we've learned is "Don't fall in love with your words." Aries flew onto the page in three months, ten days and came in at 122K. I know my methods work because the ms was accepted the first time out with a contract two weeks after submission.

To address the question of dealing with writer's block, I'd recommend 1. Take a short break. I don't mean put the ms in a drawer. This is not procrastination. During this break, go outdoors, get into a pool, be in nature, sit in the grass against a tree, meditate, do deep breathing.

2. Think positive. Don't say to yourself, "I've got writer's block," repeatedly. You're focusing on the negative and when you do that, you'll get more negative. I'm all about the mind/body connection. Focus on the negative your body will feel it and tighten up.

3. You can use some tools. I call them Tools of Empowerment. That may be music, to many. Some authors can't write without it. I use crystals and healing stones, again from my alternative healing training. Sodalite is a blue stone that can foster creative expression. It's called the 'student's stone.' It helps emotions to come out, on paper, as well. If you're a righty hold it in your left palm to start and then keep it in your left pocket when you type.

4. I know a lot of authors use this when creating a ms. Tarot. I'm a Certified Tarot Master Instructor but you don't have to be when you're using it to help you create. I use it to create characters, chapters, the order of the chapters, if my plot is paced well, twists. I will not do personal reading here on Goodreads, but if you have a question about using Tarot for your ms, I'd be happy to answer them.

5. Sit down at that computer and type. Look at your outline, paragraph by paragraph. Keep it next to you when you type. I believe plotting prevents writer's block. It's pansters that usually experience this. Pansters write without planning. These writers may be able to get out up to three chapters, if they're lucky, but then they hit a brick wall. It's because they don't know where to go next.

6. Don't use writer's block as an excuse not to get your ms completed. I also call it 'losing your passion' for your project. Don't confuse the two. But it's the same thing. You have to be madly in love with what you're writing to finish it. You have to feel the emotions, cry at the scenes you want your reader to cry at. During sex scenes, if you don't get hot and squirm in your seat, your reader won't. Sometime at what we call 'the sagging middle', this point becomes an impasse. Writers will say, 'now I have writer's block.' No, you don't. You lost the sizzle, the pacing. You need to switch it up. Kill someone (on paper), have an almost consummate sex scene. Let something happen to your character s a twist, or turning point.

As you can see, I'm tough on this subject. And opinionated. MY motto is 'never give up.' If you want it badly enough, you'll do it. Just like your characters need their 'why', so do you.

If you have any questions re this topic, please respond and I'll answer them.(less)

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What’s the best thing about being a writer?

Ronnie Allen People look at me and see a very calm person, someone that would not be capable of committing murder. That's reality. In my novels, I know how to and …morePeople look at me and see a very calm person, someone that would not be capable of committing murder. That's reality. In my novels, I know how to and I do, murder people in unusual ways and circumstances. I'm my antagonists and protagonists. The best thing about being a writer? I get to escape into other people's heads. Resolve traumas I've had. To me writing is a catharsis. I put a lot of me into my novels and people who know me, will see it.(less)

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