Laila Ibrahim
I have to really want the story of particular characters to be in the world. I was very reluctant to write Yellow Crocus because I didn't know that I could do it and I knew it would be a lot of work. But the characters would not get out of my head. For seven years they kept popping up. That's where is where my inspirations comes from for my writing in the largest sense.
In the more immediate, day to day, I set artificial time boundaries and deadlines. For example I'll ask friends to read a draft. If they say yes, I tell them the date I will get it to them, so I'll be motivated to finish by that date. Or I will calendar writing for 2 hours. Then I just sit in front of the computer and wait for words to flow. If I get stuck, I just move onto a place where I'm not stuck. I think being stuck means I'm on the wrong track.
In the more immediate, day to day, I set artificial time boundaries and deadlines. For example I'll ask friends to read a draft. If they say yes, I tell them the date I will get it to them, so I'll be motivated to finish by that date. Or I will calendar writing for 2 hours. Then I just sit in front of the computer and wait for words to flow. If I get stuck, I just move onto a place where I'm not stuck. I think being stuck means I'm on the wrong track.
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Laila Ibrahim:
I really enjoyed the yellow crocus, and hope to get more time to read more of you works. Will you be writing any more of the same genre?
The Happy Library
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Laila Ibrahim:
Just finished listening to Yellow Crocus on Audible, your story blew me away!! My emotions were all over the place and I knew from early on this was a keeper. All I kept saying was, 'Wow!' I have Mustard Seed on my kindle for ages but had no idea it was a sequel. As soon as I realised it was I threw myself MSeed. I'm on chapter 1 and would like to know Will there be part 3?
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