My name is Stephanie and I am
twenty eight year old from New Jersey. I have completed and won National Novel
Writing Month (NaNoWriMo), in 2014, and I am competing again this year (2016).
I also write different articles and posts for my blog. I write mostly about
theatre and I write about books. Other than writing I really enjoy musical
theatre as both a performer, tech crew, and an audience member. I’ve been doing
musical theatre since around age nine, and it is a huge part of my life.
I read a lot of Young Adult
Fiction and a lot of different classic novels. I’m the kind of person that is
an avid TV junkie, and I watched a lot of different shows on TV and Netflix. I am in school getting my BS in General
Studies, but I have three AA’s in: Theatre, Journalism, and English. I want to
be a writer and a journalist when I’m done with school.
What
novel are you currently working on? And what is it about in a few sentences?
The novel I’m currently working
on is called A NOT SO ORDINARY LIFE. It’s a young adult real life fiction aimed
at teens and adults that enjoy reading young adult fiction. The novel itself is
about two twins named Phoebe and Lizzie who are fostered after they’re born,
and it talks about them and their foster family. I also talk about their mother,
Scarlett, and where she is in her life at that time. I jump around between the
present, the past, Scarlett, and doing a trans media post which is Phoebe’s
journal or Lizzie’s blog entry.
If
you can remember, where did the idea A NOT SO ORDINARY LIFE come from?
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The odd thing is that the idea
for A NOT SO ORDINARY LIFE came to me one day, and I just had this idea about
twins that were fostered from a young age and didn’t know their mother. After I
had found the two characters the plot wrote itself, and it just kind of flowed
from there.
Who
is your favorite character from your novel and why?
In my current novel it’s my character
Phoebe. I designed her a bit like me but a little bit different from who I am
and how I act. She is my favorite because she and I have the same interest. For
example, she wants to be a journalist.
Do
you have any tips for people who have “always wanted to write” but have never
actually attempted it?
My biggest tip is to just get the
novel down on paper if you have an idea. If you don’t have an idea yet, but you
have the start of an idea just start with what you have and expand on that.
Think about the stories that you read, and the characters that you already
love, and write a story like that. Just write even if it’s anything that
doesn’t make sense write the story that you want down, and edit it later.
How
do you find the time to write? Do you give yourself a strict schedule or do you
have a different plan of attack?
I find the time to write by using
NaNoWriMo sprints on twitter. I do follow a strict schedule of three or four
hours a day, this works most days because I’m a planner and it’s the way that I
live my life every day. For days when I’m busy I use the time that I have, and
I just will either write in the morning before I need to do other things.
Finally,
what are your future aspirations as a writer?
As I was saying before, I’d like
to be a writer of fiction mostly in the Young Adult genre, but one day I would
love to write a historical fiction novel because I have always loved History. I’d
also like to write reviews and recaps for entertainment: Broadway shows, TV,
Books, and Movies, I would love to just write to write, and hope that people
enjoy the things that I’m writing.
Thanks so much for stopping by Stephanie! I wish you the best with your NaNo novel!
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