What advice would you give budding writers? Budding writers should do just
that—write! I’ve always kept journals,
write letters, write ideas for characters and stories.
Another bit of advice is to ‘people watch’. I have watched strangers in a mall, the park,
the movie theatre, etc… always imagining what their name would be, what their
profession would be, why they were happy or frowning, etc.
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Do your research, when I’m writing I always do my
due diligence. For The Last Dance I
interviewed law enforcement professionals, including police department
detectives, sheriff, patrolmen, and police photographers. Some are current, some are retired. I research things my characters will
encounter.
Doing your research will help you develop
your characters. The
hardest characters for me to write are the criminals, as I don’t want them to
be stereotypical, and getting into the criminal mind is a ‘foreign’ experience
for me. In your book you will always
have characters you can relate to easier, in The Last Dance I was able to write
about some characters who have a background with which I am familiar…like
Sorrel, Mr. Byrd, and Will.
I seldom get writer’s block. However, it does
happen, or me when this happens sometimes I write a letter to someone to get my
mind flowing. Other times, I will make a
journal entry, something often that has no relation to anything in my
book. When I have finished it, I realize
that I have either solved a problem for a character…or raised a question.
Lonna Enox is a former high school and college English instructor. She grew up on a ranch in New Mexico, where she learned to love critters, reading, and "wide open" spaces. She is a wife, mom, and grandmother, as well as the proud owner of 4 rescue pets--3 cats and a dog. Aside from an early stint as a newspaper reporter, she also spent 10 years as a freelance magazine writer. She is happiest exploring a wildlife refuge, cuddling little ones and critters, or snuggled up reading a good mystery. Lonna is a professional writer with over 250 printed articles in a variety of national and regional magazines. She has written in several genres and The Last Dance is her debut mystery.
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