Ask the Author: K.S. Marshall
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K.S. Marshall
Staying committed to the story when you start to doubt yourself. You have to trust that the story is great and people will enjoy it. I have several times where I feel like my book sucks and no one will want to read it...so powering through that is easily the hardest part! Good luck and keep going!
K.S. Marshall
When I was a pre-teen, I'd read stories online. I came across this story about a girl who had a mortal enemy who had actually fallen in love with her and his methods weren't always "on the level". That's how the first idea of Lost & Found came to be. I liked the fact that sometimes people do bad things because of misguided love.
K.S. Marshall
Honestly, it just strikes. I love writing and journaling and getting my thoughts out on paper. The stories that I come up with are usually enough to keep pulling me to the page. Sometimes, I'll see a movie or read a book and that 's where I get the inspiration to write something new. I do find that, like any muscle, if I don't use it-- it can go away. So I don't always write when I'm inspired...I try to write something...anything...every single day.
K.S. Marshall
I'm currently working on part one of my Lost & Found Duet. It's a story about a girl who is trying to figure out where she belongs in the world and the man who falls in love with her when he's absolutely not supposed to. It's a story that I've been churning over in my head since I was 13 and it feels good to watch it take shape and turn into something real and tangible.
K.S. Marshall
Read. Read. Read. And then read some more. There is this belief that you have to have something accomplished before you can consider yourself a writer, but I think that if you can sit down and write anything, be it a novel or a haiku poem, you're a writer. Don't doubt yourself. The worlds needs to hear what you have to say.
K.S. Marshall
Having a voice. I've struggled, my entire life, with feeling like no one cared what I thought, felt, or had to say. Writing gives my voice validity. Even if no one reads anything I've written, it still exists.
K.S. Marshall
Copious amounts of coffee/wine and denial. ;) No, I just try to put my writing on hold and read a few books to get my writing voice back or I'll skip to the next chapter. Kind of like back in school when taking a test...do the parts you know and come back to the hard ones at the end.
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