What Every Woman Should Know by Jori Aguilar Sams

Until then, the next generation loves to hold a book when they read. When the younger generation becomes the next generation, everything will be digital. I think traditional publishing will never recover. What do you think about the future of book publishing? It's a long journey of self-promotion and building fans and a support base. It's important to know what you want to accomplish as a writer before you publish. I don't force anything, but I am determined. So I've held on and gone the self-publishing route. Over the years I've received publishing offers, but none of them were any good. How did you decide how to publish your books? What advice would you give other writers? I listen to them more than I talk to them.

I picture them as I'm writing as if they're in the room with me. I get a really good idea of my characters before they start talking, so they can talk to me. I start with a character idea and let the characters create themselves.įor Fiction Writers: Do you listen (or talk to) to your characters?

The most important thing is being disciplined and writing, even when not in the mood so that I can sometimes be in the zone and perform well. If ideas and beginnings come to me, I write them down. If I have a well-developed plot, I begin sketching it out and doing research. Something as simple as a name, a place, a song, an idea, a sentence, a look in someone's eye can strike the author and get the wheels spinning. So is Dickens because of the way he connected with the working class and Austen for what she means to women authors. For this reason, for the way he inspired me as a young author, he's one of my favorites. What authors do you read when you aren’t writing?Īfter reading War and Peace, I really wanted to leave a bit of myself behind as Tolstoy did. So does sitting in the midst of a historical setting like an old Roman ruin that carries me back in time where I sit and imagine what life must have been like then. Touring vast open and wild spaces sets me into author-mode. Listening to a beautiful song inspires me to write. Watching a clever or engaging memoir about an author inspires me to write. Reading a well-written book that brings me into the story inspires me to write. Since then I've penned over twenty books of all genre and started my author website, Writeious Books where I aim to inspire the readers and leave them food for thought!

In university, I studied medicine but it left me feeling empty-handed, so instead of reading medical books, I began concentrating on writing. I've been a freelance journalist for years, too, where I've penned over 1500 pieces for Yahoo alone. This has given me palette full of color, and offered me plenty of material to write about. Over the past twenty years, I’ve lived in five countries.

What Every Woman Should Know by Jori Aguilar Sams