Louella Bryant
Being a writer for most of us isn't about making millions of dollars or getting heaps of praise. It's not about being followed by the paparazzi or getting three-book deals. It's about a passion for words. It's about talking to writers and readers about craft. And it's about making the next book, the next chapter, the next paragraph, the next sentence better than the one before it. It's about le mot juste, the precise word, even if you have to invent it, as Shakespeare did!
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Sally Baldwin
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Louella Bryant:
I have read four of your books and they are very different from one another in terms of place, time, the characters' racial and socio-economic backgrounds. You obviously have many ideas for stories so my question is how do you determine which story ideas will "click" compelling you to actually sit down and write a whole book? Have you ever started a book and then half way into it decided you didn't want to finish it?
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