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Excerpt:
How many times have you forgotten to do something small? Shut a window before it rains? Take your phone with you? Do up a button on your shirt? Grab your homework on your way out the door? On the day that seals my fate, I forget to look over my shoulder.
Right before it happens everything is the same. I get the same rush of freedom that I always get in my stomach when I leave the school parking lot, hit the gas, and make a right turn onto St. Charles Avenue. The same line of live oak trees cast their tunnel of shadows over the street. I see their branches moving, so I turn the air conditioning off, roll my windows down, ignore the text messages blowing up my phone, and turn the Jimi Hendrix music (that I only listen to when I am by myself) way up. The sweat starts to pool up around the white collar of my school uniform, but the feeling of the wind across my face is totally worth it. What I do not know is that this is the last time I will ever do it.
I guess if you asked me what I do know for sure in those last moments I would say that I am a pretty fast runner, I am decent at guitar, and that Margot Cramer is the love of my life.
The Book Junkie Reads . . .Reckless Dreams Interview with . . . Laura Michaud . . .
What mindset or routine do you feel the need to set when preparing to write (in general whether you are working on a project or just free writing)?
I definitely need a little bit of head-clearing before I start writing. Kind of in the spirit of Julia Cameron’s “The Morning Pages” idea, I sometimes need to just let all my thoughts out before I can focus on my characters.
Do you take your character prep to heart? Do you nurture the growth of each character all the way through to the page? Do you people watch to help with development? Or do you build upon your character during story creation? For the most part, I try to let it happen as I am writing instead of figuring them out all in advance. I usually know some little kernel of something about them when I am starting, and then I get to know them more as the story develops. I really enjoy that part of the writing process, especially when you’re happily surprised with how a character turned out later.
Do you have a character that you have been working on that you can't wait to put to paper? I do! She is a hustling grandmother that loves to play bingo.
Can you share your next creative project(s)? If yes, can you give a few details? The Ghostwriter of New Orleans is the first in a series, so my next project is working on the follow-up. It would be hard to share some details without giving away a lot of the first book!
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