It would be wonderful if they were readers, as well. What do your friends and family think of your writing? The trick is to blend the traits into the fictional characters, so the models don’t recognize themselves. When you can’t imagine failure, how hard can any task be?Īre your characters based on real people, or did they all come entirely from your imagination?Īll my characters have pieces I’ve taken from real people, not replicas as much as bits of attitude and personalities borrowed. The caption read, “Nothing is obvious to the uninformed.” I love that. Fifty feet below sat a half-filled paper cup. On the front, a cartoon hippo dressed in a tutu stood at the top of a platform, preparing to dive. Years ago, I received a humorous greeting card. I would love to surprise him by writing one. What genre have you never written that you’d like to write?
I cold-heartedly steal their pictures and post them in my scrivener software to stay inspired. The internet is full of movie and TV celebrity images. Of course, I picture each character before I write. I hope I’ve written the characters so that readers see them in their mind’s eye, and they can select the perfect flesh-and-blood actor for each role. I don’t think I could cast the actors-especially Rory Naysmith, my protagonist. What actors would you like in the main roles if your book were made into a movie? I don’t think I could get started without one. The novel’s shape flexes as the story grows and matures, and I’ve been known to toss the plan aside. I like an outline before I begin and then write toward an ending. If I have to admit to anything, it would be to over-organizing. A missing woman is not the main story in Gone Astray, but it was the spark that started the whole creative process.Īre there any tricks, habits or superstitions you have when creating a story? One morning she was fine, and the next, she was gone without a trace. Right around the same time, a friend’s mother disappeared. I read a lot of mysteries-traditional, cozy, and thrillers. My challenge was to continue to write without the family commitment. As you can imagine, over time, one by one, they dropped out.
Some of us were writers the others were good sports. Where did you get the idea for Gone Astray?Ī dozen years ago, I wrote a short story a month to share it with my sister, mother, and a few cousins. To this day, Eastern Nebraska holds a special place in my heart and is the setting for much of my writing. I have wonderful memories of those times. When I was a child, our family moved often, but we always spent summers visiting our grandparents in Nebraska. I have lived in Texas most of my adult life, although I was born in South Dakota. Please tell us a little about yourself, where are you from? Where do you live now? Family? Pets? Please help me welcome today’s guest, Terry Korth Fischer…
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