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H.L. Trombley
I'm going to have to say Elizabeth and Darcy from Pride and Prejudice, with Anne and Captain Wentworth as close seconds. What can I say, I like the classics! From more recent works, though, I have to say I love Karou and Akiva from Laini Taylor's fantastic Daughter of Smoke and Bone series, and Nazafareen and Darius from Kat Ross's The Fourth Element series.
H.L. Trombley
This question kind of goes hand-in-hand with the writer's block question, above. It's not a matter of inspiration, at least not in the sense of walking down a beautiful street in Paris, smelling the blossoming trees and the coffee and freshly baked baguettes and breathing in deeply and exclaiming "Ah, I feel so inspired!" Writing is a matter of butt in chair, hands on keyboard. I try to eliminate distractions: no internet, quiet house if possible, everything in alignment so that I can reach the still place inside of me where stories come from.
The other kind of inspiration, the where-do-you-get-your-ideas kind, well--ideas are everywhere. They are just floating in the air, waiting to be grasped.
The other kind of inspiration, the where-do-you-get-your-ideas kind, well--ideas are everywhere. They are just floating in the air, waiting to be grasped.
H.L. Trombley
It's called Steel Butterfly, and it's sort of a gender-swapped fairy tale: that is, in this story, the maiden is the one rescuing the handsome prince.
H.L. Trombley
Write!
This sounds flippant, but it really isn't. If you want to be a writer, you must write things. Write as many as you can, as often as you can. Good or bad, it doesn't matter. Just write. The other stuff, the getting-your-words-out-into-the-world stuff, can never happen if you don't have any words.
This sounds flippant, but it really isn't. If you want to be a writer, you must write things. Write as many as you can, as often as you can. Good or bad, it doesn't matter. Just write. The other stuff, the getting-your-words-out-into-the-world stuff, can never happen if you don't have any words.
H.L. Trombley
Making up stories! Also, that moment, only noticed in retrospect, when the process of putting words on the page stops being a laborious, one-word-at-a-time slog, and becomes an effortless communion between mind and page, and time ceases to have meaning, and you are truly creating magic.
H.L. Trombley
I don't really believe in writer's block. There are time when I can't make progress, but those invariably have to do with life circumstances preventing me from writing, or from something in what I have previously written, so that I have to go back and fix it before I can move forward, and I just haven't figured it out yet. A writer is not a machine; even someone with no other obligations cannot just write and write and write nonstop for eight hours a day, seven days a week, without pause. We all need fallow periods.
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