Ask the Author: Dianne C. Braley
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Dianne C. Braley
Sure! Happy to review for a review.
Dianne C. Braley
When I am toast from writing longer works such as a novel, I find it helps to take a few days and work on my poetry or write a small essay and submit it. It gives me gratification when I can see something completed quickly and validates that I can write.
Dianne C. Braley
I can get the people and the lives they lead out of my head. It gets crowded in there.
Dianne C. Braley
You might not be the best writer; I certainly am not. I am a good storyteller and understand humanness, so I play to my strengths, which I find is key. That's what editors are for. However, my most significant piece of advice is discipline, discipline, discipline.
Dianne C. Braley
My next work in progress is a novel about another dark subject. Like my mentor William Styron, I gravitate toward exploring the dark.
Dianne C. Braley
I've been writing since I was small. It started when I got a diary, although I hated writing so matter of factly about the events of my day and life. Music was a constant in my life, and one day I decided to write similarly to the lyrics of a song. Writing this way suited me and my feelings.
Dianne C. Braley
In my poetry book, Unheard Whispers, which just came out, I didn't get the idea per see... I lived it. It's a collection of poems about growing up with an alcoholic parent.
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