Ask the Author: Linda Pendleton
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Linda Pendleton
Hi Tony, Thank you for the nice review and comments. Your question is hard to answer as I write a variety. You may like my Catherine Winter Private Investigator Series--Shattered Lens, Fractured Image, Shifting Focus. Also, my Deadly Flare-up: Richard McCord PI novel. Don and I wrote the crime novel Roulette, the Search for the Sunrise Killer. The Richard McCord novel, along with my latest, a western, are written under L.R. Pendleton. Thanks so much, Linda
Linda Pendleton
I'm currently working on the second Samuel Garrison Western. My first one, The Bold Trail, A Samuel Garrison Western, was enjoyable to write. I liked my character and the feedback I'm getting, others do, too, so I decided Samuel Garrison had more story to tell. It's set in the California Gold Rush period.
Linda Pendleton
5 tips for Authors and Aspiring Authors.
1. Write, write, write! We write because we have to. We have to allow our creativity the avenue to find its proper place–expressed on the written page.
2. Unless you're under contract to produce a certain book and don't have the freedom to write the book you want, write what you desire, and in the genre you want. As the late, great, Joseph Campbell stated, "Follow your bliss." Campbell's quote not only applies to your life, but also to your writing.
3. Leave a chapter, or even a sub-chapter, with what some refer to as "a page turner," a dramatic moment in the story that invites the reader to turn the page and continue his or her journey through your story. This same strategy can be skillfully used in non-fiction, as well.
4. Do your research. One thing that every novel needs is credibility. Your story must be plausible, meaningful, and entertaining.
5. Make sure your dialogue is sharp, and real. Your characters must talk like real people. Your fictional world must seem more understandable and coherent to the reader than the world in which he lives daily. The writer has to be in complete charge of the fictional world he or she creates.
5 tips for Authors and Aspiring Authors.
1. Write, write, write! We write because we have to. We have to allow our creativity the avenue to find its proper place–expressed on the written page.
2. Unless you're under contract to produce a certain book and don't have the freedom to write the book you want, write what you desire, and in the genre you want. As the late, great, Joseph Campbell stated, "Follow your bliss." Campbell's quote not only applies to your life, but also to your writing.
3. Leave a chapter, or even a sub-chapter, with what some refer to as "a page turner," a dramatic moment in the story that invites the reader to turn the page and continue his or her journey through your story. This same strategy can be skillfully used in non-fiction, as well.
4. Do your research. One thing that every novel needs is credibility. Your story must be plausible, meaningful, and entertaining.
5. Make sure your dialogue is sharp, and real. Your characters must talk like real people. Your fictional world must seem more understandable and coherent to the reader than the world in which he lives daily. The writer has to be in complete charge of the fictional world he or she creates.
Linda Pendleton
I don't have what some might consider writer's block. At times it may take a bit for my creativity to flow, but when that happens I may do other activities until the inspiration returns.
Linda Pendleton
My most recent book, The Bold Trail, A Samuel Garrison Western, was inspired by my interest in the California Gold Rush. I've done several Introductions to books written during or shortly after the God Rush. A writer friend, Stephen Mertz, asked me why I didn't write a Western--as we need more female Western writers. I gave it some thought and due to my interest in the old West, I soon started a Western. While writing the book, I submitted a nonfiction article to Piccadilly Publishing for their first issue of "Head West! a magazine for Western Fans." It's an article about the influence and interest in Westerns, books, movies and TV, when I was a kid and sharing that with my father. That inspired me all the more to write my book. I just signed a contract with a German Language publisher for my Western novel and a number of other books, to be translated into German. I'm now working on a second Samuel Garrison Western.
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