Ask the Author: Kimberly Morgan
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Kimberly Morgan
Asleep, she ran through unfamiliar streets, ducking through open doorways and slipping from shadow to shadow, trying to avoid capture until, exhausted, sleep claimed her. When she woke from her dreams, she ran through unfamiliar streets, stumbling through the haze of countless days and dreams, until sleep found her again.
Kimberly Morgan
Set a doable, realistic goal for writing and stick to it. If you aren't sure you can stick to a daily goal, make it a weekly one (or whatever works for you). Just be faithful to it and invest time and feeling into it.
If it helps, join a writer's group or a project like NaNoWriMo that motivates you and keeps you accountable. Whether you set yourself a daily word count in your first draft or line editing your tenth draft, it'll help motivate you when you start to hate that manuscript and doubt your reasons for ever writing in the first place.
If it helps, join a writer's group or a project like NaNoWriMo that motivates you and keeps you accountable. Whether you set yourself a daily word count in your first draft or line editing your tenth draft, it'll help motivate you when you start to hate that manuscript and doubt your reasons for ever writing in the first place.
Kimberly Morgan
I have a playlist of music specific to the writing I'm doing, and it's mostly instrumental -- lyrics distract me too much. I also have a scent library, because scent is highly evocative for me; very clear, strong scent memories give my writing a powerful boost. For example, when I was writing a particular scene in my novel, I wore a perfumed oil that contained resinous and coniferous blends, and another that smelled strongly of honey. These things inspire intensely vivid imagery that contribute to the scene in my head.
Kimberly Morgan
It's the most wonderful feeling when, out of the blue, someone reaches out to to tell me that something I wrote had a profound effect on them. When I'm writing about something that only happens in the mind of my main character and I'm able to take the reader's hand and pull them inside with me... that's an incredible thing.
The best music does this. Certain pieces of art have had this effect on me. But to do the same thing with words on a page -- a static thing that becomes alive -- that's the best thing about being a writer.
The best music does this. Certain pieces of art have had this effect on me. But to do the same thing with words on a page -- a static thing that becomes alive -- that's the best thing about being a writer.
Kimberly Morgan
Just today, on my desk, I found a rock -- it's got a sort of triangular shape, even though it's softly rounded at the edges. Two things (besides the shape) are unusual about this rock: I didn't put it on my desk and no one seems to know where it came from, and it has the name "Dan" written on it in pen.
I'm perplexed about this rock and its origins.
I'm perplexed about this rock and its origins.
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