Tell us a little bit about yourself: My husband and I are high school sweethearts going strong after 43 years. We have 4 children and 21 grandchildren. My husband just retired. We sold our home, bought a luxurious motorhome and hit the road to travel the U.S. I’m looking forward to this new adventure.
If you knew ahead of time your book would benefit only one person on their spiritual journey, would you still write it? Yes, sometimes I write my stories just for myself. The story needs to get out of me and on paper so it will leave me along! Lol.
Do you feel pressured to compromise your standards in order to reach a larger audience or be more successful? No. Not ever. I guess I’ve been blessed.
What do you think is lacking in Christian Fiction? More reality. I think Christian Fiction, romance in particular, should deal with more real-life situations that Christians face daily.
With all those characters in your head screaming to get out how do you write fast enough to get it all down? I don’t! But I have to constantly remind myself that I can’t write about life if I’m not living…and my husband is good about keeping me tethered in the real world.
What is your personal, most effective way to get past writer’s block? Stop writing and find out where I went wrong. Usually if I have writer’s block I’ve made the characters do something that’s not right and my subconscious is screaming at me to fix it!
Have you always wanted to write a book? I’ve wanted to write for as long as I could remember. I wrote my first book when I was 11.
Do you have your plotline and character development already laid out before you begin writing a book, or do they develop as you write? Plotlines come to me automatically, like movies in my head…especially when I travel. Sometimes my problem is creating the right characterizations for the plot in my head. Sometimes they don’t work out and I have to change that original plot. That’s my biggest problem, learning to let go of that first idea that might or might not work.
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