Guest Author: Shiloh answers her most asked Question
Monday, March 19, 2007 13:44Posted in category Guests and Events
I think the question authors get asked the most is:
My answer to that isn’t anything simple and pat.
They just come.
Sometimes I see a movie and that gets an idea going. Sometimes a song. Sometimes I’m driving down the road and bam…it hits just like that. I don’t sit down very often and try to think up a book to write and when I do? It rarely works.
But that’s the question I get asked the most…
anybody else have other questions?
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Ang Bennett says:
March 19th, 2007 at 1:56 pm
Do you schedule your writing time, and what happens if you get an idea when you are doing something else???
Shiloh Walker says:
March 19th, 2007 at 1:59 pm
I write it down for later. ;o)
Ang, you oughta know me by now. Schedule? What is that? Seriously, at one point, I would have said no, I don’t schedule anything but appointments but since Im trying to get more organized as a writer in general, so i can be more productive with my time, yeah, I’ve got a schdule. Usually write more after lunch and take care of biz related stuff in the AM. I’m not as strict with it as I’d like but hey…I’m working on it.
cherie J says:
March 19th, 2007 at 2:02 pm
I am curious to know which of all the books is written would you consider to be your favorite?
Amy S. says:
March 19th, 2007 at 2:08 pm
If your Hunter series was made into a movie, what actors would you pick for the cast?
Shiloh Walker says:
March 19th, 2007 at 2:11 pm
Cherie, I’d have to say Touch of Gypsy Fire It’s a fantasy and since I’m totally in love with fantasy, swordsmen, elves, magic, whatever, it would definitely be that one.
Amy… hmmmmm… you know what? I dunno. The characters come to me in my head and I don’t often see anybody that resembles them as I see them. I’d have to think about that one.
Cathie says:
March 19th, 2007 at 9:48 pm
Whats the pic there in this post in the blog? LOL.
Shiloh, I got into Fantasy by reading ebooks. When I saw Fantasy and SF on the bookshelves, I never knew where to start, so ebooks got me into them and always wanting to read more. Any area of Fantasy you’d yet like to explore? or other genre/theme you haven’t yet? Thanks
Shiloh says:
March 20th, 2007 at 5:44 am
More in fantasy, Cathie. I don’t write in that genre enough because it does take me a lot more time, the world building and all. But deadlines are keeping me from spending as much time there as I’d like, plus I also have to be in the mood for it. That doesn’t help.
Cathy says:
March 20th, 2007 at 10:44 am
Hi Shi, which books would we see on your keeper shelf?
Shiloh says:
March 20th, 2007 at 6:24 pm
Anything by JR Robb, any of Nora Robert’s trilogies, anything and everything by SL Viehl/Lynn Viehl/Jessica Hall, Lora Leigh, Mary Wine, Shelby Reed, Anne Bishop….hhhhmmmmm is there a word limit on this?
Shiloh says:
March 20th, 2007 at 6:24 pm
crud. that was supposed to be JD Robb, but maybe it was a subliminal… because JR Ward should have been there too.
Lee says:
March 20th, 2007 at 8:55 pm
Okay, another question about books. Which of those books do you find yourself re-reading most often?
Shiloh says:
March 20th, 2007 at 9:28 pm
SL Viehl. Without a doubt. I’m on my second or third with a couple of hers. I’m not a gentle reader. I love my books, but I don’t treat them like glass and they eventually fall apart. Only books I’ve ever read to pieces by SL Viehl’s were Mercedes Lackey’s Children of the Night and Laurell K Hamilton’s Nightseer.
Lee says:
March 21st, 2007 at 10:42 am
Thanks Shiloh. Never read Children of the Night. Need to go get the blurb on this one.