Hooray Simon Schuster Blogfest!

Thanks, Simon & Schuster, for including me in the blogfest for September!

Here’s what I had to say with them, but there are more great author Q&As for you to check out too!

Terra McVoy on “When you’re writing a book and making up characters, do you feel like you become that character, as well as that character becomes a part of you?”
By Terra Elan McVoy | Posted on September 29th, 2009

More it is like I am a secret cameraperson in the lives of my characters. I get to watch and hear everything they do, and can even get into their brains and listen to what they are thinking—things they don’t even know they’re thinking themselves. Then it’s my job to go back and record everything properly. I’m more of a stenographer than anything else.

Terra McVoy on “How often do you have to edit and rewrite while working on a piece?”
By Terra Elan McVoy | Posted on September 27th, 2009

Constantly. Every day. In your head. On your keyboard. On the paper. On the telephone . . . Writing is organic and it is constantly changing. And it doesn’t become good (like pizza dough) until you really work it over. To the point of sweating, really.