#burningemberjade

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Hi blogherosix, 

Thanks for tagging me I love to meet new friends.

Rules: always post the rules, answer the questions given to you, write 10 questions of your own, tag 10 people.

1) How would you poorly explain your WIP in one sentence?

The one I’m trying to sell is speculative, upmarket, like if Paulo Coehlo’s work mated with Dan Brown’s and produced a girl child called Dorothy.

The one I’m still writing is mainstream, women’s fic like Elizabeth Berg or Liane Moriarty.

2) Which OC is the most like you personality wise? Physically?

Many of my characters have a bit of me. My beta readers say that the domestic goddess Tara most strikes them as me. Like her, I lost a brother and I’m a blond mommy.

3) What have you incidentally become an expert of because of your writing?

Writing. I started because I needed to get certain ideas out of my head and I challenged myself to write an actual novel with said ideas. I didn’t plan to share my work initially.

4) Do you have MBTI types for your characters? The Zodiac? If so, what are they?

I have a degree in Psychology. I rely on that heavily for character development.

5) What line or paragraph are you particularly proud of in your story?

I’m a big picture girl and I start with ideas to explore and stories to tell. That’s more my focus than individual lines.

6) You’ve just run into your OC on the sidewalk. What is the reaction?

I’d probably be in the zone and pass them by unawares.

7) What is one piece of writing advice you absolutely love? Hate?

I like this advice from the person who tagged me. 

Writing even when you’re not inspired–especially when you’re not inspired. I love the phrase, “You can’t edit a blank page.” Writing is hard but rewarding, but you have to do it. 

It works to just sit down and slog through it. Sometimes it incites the muse.

I hate any advice that’s formulaic. There’s no magic formula to writing. There’s trends and tropes, sure, but no one way to be successful at writing. Write what you want to write.

This one is true too. Fresh and new comes from this point of view, as well as motivation and fun, but one also has to have at least a good education on the standards of good writing and style. And when submitting for publication one must be able to follow guidelines.

8) If you could introduce your characters to characters from another author’s work, who would you introduce and why?

To be honest, the list is too long. I love experiments.

9) What is something you love that your OC hates, or they love and you hate?

Grace loves nit-picky organizational work. I’m not so gifted.

10) Is there a song, book, poem, artwork, or person that fuels your current WIP?

No