13. What’s your favorite culture to write, fictional or not? Doesn’t it kind of seem like they are asking the same exact questions over again sometimes? It does to me. In any case, my favorite fictional culture to write is Fie Eoin’s (see, yesterday), followed pretty closely by Top Secret Project’s (although I can’t tell […]
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12. In what story did you feel you did the best job of world building? Any side-notes on it you’d like to share? This time you really do know what I’m going to say, and it’s Fie Eoin! It had better be – I’ve spent a heck of a long time building that world. I’ve
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11. Who is your favorite character to write? Least favorite? I’m pretty sure we discussed this on Day One. Rebecca is by far (well, ok, not far – Kindra’s pretty close) my favorite character to write. I’m not sure I have a least favorite. If I didn’t like writing someone I’d find a way to
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10. What are some really weird situations your characters have been in? Holly was attacked by a giant cat with a spiny tail and a distorted version of her own face. This was after she saw the mouse wearing pants run away with a piece of bread in its hands, but before Phooka the Dog
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9. How do you get ideas for your characters? Describe the process of creating them. Creating them? They create themselves and let me get to know them over a long process. It’s kinda like making a new friend. I can always feel a new Character before they actually appear – it feels like being anxious
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8. What’s your favorite genre to write? To read? My favorite genre to read is Historical Fiction with a good dose of Fiction. The Light Bearer and Lady of the Light by Donna Gillespie are my current favorites (and have been since I picked them up a few years ago). They are set in ancient
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7. Do you listen to music while you write? What kind? Are there any songs you like to relate/apply to your characters? I listen to music while I do everything. Drive, work, eat, write. Music was my first love, and I love just about all types of music (not so much heavy metal or rap
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5. By age, who is your youngest character? Oldest? How about “youngest” and “oldest” in terms of when you created them? My youngest major character is Mikayla Morgan, who is six years old at the beginning of Lane’s Girl. My oldest major character is… um… I’m not really sure. Once they become old enough I
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4. Tell us about one of your first stories/characters! So you all know that I’ve been working on Fie Eoin for years, and that it was the first book-length original fiction I ever wrote. But there is this little known book called “My Life With Pone” that predates Fie Eoin by, oh, about a decade.
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3. How do you come up with names, for characters (and for places if you’re writing about fictional places)? I used to go crazy coming up with names for people and places in my stories. Parenthood.com’s baby name generator was on my bookmarks list. I looked up every single name in Fie Eoin until I
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