Mia: Love Spell was so much fun to write, from the very birth of its concept. TNA: Do you go into the writing of a book like Love Spell in a different mindset than you would, say, a book like Not Broken, Just Bent? Does the difference between writing a lighthearted book and one with a weightier theme affect your mood away from the computer, or are you able to leave your emotions at the keyboard when you step away? My original mental image of Chance César was a Johnny Depp-as-a-pirate kind of guy-but with Edward Scissorhands hair in neon ORANGE. RIGHT” feeling about the image I have chosen for each character. I do not stop until I have a visual “YOU ARE MR. First I write a description of the character’s personality and appearance, very detailed, and then I search for visual images. I take the mental image I have conceived and flesh it out fully. I do not use a standard outline form, just a long rambling list.Īnd then the fun part-creating the characters. The next step in my writing process involves creating a very rough outline of the events that will take place in the story.

This can feel like a desperate time for me until I have the plot idea, and then I feel AWESOME. Sometimes I even think about fairy tales to get plot ideas. Themes of different song lyrics give me ideas, as do people I see in real life and issues I am confronted with on social media. I think about popular culture, events in the news, what kinds of things kids deal with everyday, current music, and music that spoke to me as a teenager. Chance just wants to be all-girl sometimes, all-boy others, and a little bit of each in-between.Īfter researching the theme I will tackle, I spend time creating a rough version of a plot. But he has no urge to physically transition to become a woman or even to live his life as a woman. I had a concept in my mind of Chance César-a teenage boy who is quite in touch with his feminine side, even admitting he wishes, at times, that he were a girl. (Character creation=frosting on the cupcake.) For Love Spell, my research focused on gender confusion. This constitutesa good part of the hard work I conduct prior to the fun stuff, which is the creating of characters. Mia: I start the writing process by doing research on what is going to be the major theme of the book. TNA: Could you come up with a paragraph or two (or more) for us about your writing process? As always (I write a lot of books) I am thrilled to be here!! TNA: Hi, Mia, it’s good to have you back for a visit. Enjoy the mini-interview we did together, then be sure to enter for the chance to win a $25 Amazon Gift Card by clicking on the Rafflecopter widget below.

The Novel Approach welcomes author Mia Kerick today on her Love Spell blog tour.

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