Ask the Author: Laurie Graham
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Laurie Graham
'I strongly recommend,' he said, 'that you don't blow the brass horn hanging on the bedroom wall, but you will. They always do.'
Laurie Graham
I'd join a cattle drive from Texas to Montana with Captains Call and McCrae, and try to keep my seat on a horse and my scalp on my head.
Laurie Graham
Binge-reading or rather re-reading Larry McMurtry: Dead Man's Walk, Lonesome Dove and Streets of Laredo
Laurie Graham
My most recently published novel, Anyone for Seconds?, is a sequel to Perfect Meringues. It was a fairly logical and appealing idea, to revisit the woman who had been in her 40s, a single parent with a gruesome teenage daughter and a toe-curling dating history, and see what her life had become now she's in her 60s.
Laurie Graham
My smart-ass answer is that if I had ever waited for inspiration my children would have starved. A more considered answer is that I don't know how it happens but I know when it happens. I get a weird, fluttery feeling in my solar plexus, my fingers fly over the keyboard and time stands still.
Laurie Graham
Salvaging my career. Having been a fairly successful writer for the past 30 years I've suddenly found myself without a publisher, so I'm learning the business of self-publishing. I'm also working on a series of novels about a young doctor and plan to publish the first book of the Dr Dan series later this year.
Laurie Graham
Just write. Find your own voice, and don't seek the opinion of everyone and their Uncle Bill. Overcome your fear of the waste paper basket. And don't give up the day job.
Laurie Graham
Playing God. Creating worlds and peopling it with characters. Hearing from readers that you've contributed pleasure to their lives. Being able to go to work in pyjamas.
Laurie Graham
Barring some major catastrophe in your life, I don't really believe in writer's block. If the writing isn't going well it usually means there's something wrong with the concept or the structure, or one of the characters. Maybe what seemed like a brilliant idea a few months ago wasn't so brilliant after all. Better to unpick it or start over than sit around saying you're blocked.
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