Aurora
Goldberg Stein is lost in grief. Her beloved husband, Jake Stein, has
just died in a tragic car accident and her sorrow is overwhelming.
But is this really the end? Perhaps, perhaps not. She hears his
voice. She sees his ghostly presence. She travels back in time to
another life with Jake. What is going on? What is the message?
Jake
Stein, a dashing Texan, sweeps Aurora off her feet and changes her
life. A Brooklyn born actress, she moved to NYC and does temporary
work to pay her bills. On this particular assignment, she
accidentally meets Jake Stein, who is her dance with destiny. Leaving
everything she knows, she marries him and moves to Austin, Texas. No
longer struggling to make ends meet, Aurora wiles away her time bored
and lonely, and trying to recapture the excitement she once had with
this man. And then suddenly, it's all over, her life, her future is
gone. Vanished are all her hopes and dreams.
But
destiny comes in many forms, and when Aurora moves to a new house,
she discovers that the previous owner has never left. The ghostly
presence of Viola Parker looms large and becomes Aurora's guide
through time revealing to her the mistakes she's made with Jake Stein
through the centuries. This time, maybe this time, Aurora can get it
right.
What is your writing process? For instance do you do an
outline first?
Do you do the chapters first?
Here is my process—I get up in the morning, have coffee and
watch the news and get aggravated. Try and do some exercise (not really). Check
my sales (none), surf the internet and buy some clothes online, find affordable
marketing tools. But now, I’m on my computer, so I might as well write
something. So as you can see, my main process is avoidance until I’m in the
throes of a narrative. Then it’s on my mind even when I’m doing something else.
Characters come to me, names of characters come to me, what happens to my
characters come to me when I’m doing something other than writing.
But here’s the magic. When I’m finally writing, my characters
lead the narrative. They tell me what’s next, point me in other directions, so
I feel I’m on to something. I also have no set plan of the storyline but an
overall idea. My latest book is set at a Bed and Breakfast hotel and while
driving one day, I passed a road sign that said Possum Trot Lane—bingo—perfect
address for the B&B but has to be someplace like Vermont—so Vermont is the
setting.
My first three books are written in the first person present
tense—supposed to be a big no-no—but it felt right. My latest work will be in
the third person, just to mix up my writing style to see if I can do it. My
technique is to write a few chapters and then comb back through and revise,
revise, revise. I finish the work after doing this several times with all the
chapters and then revise the final result. Then I send it out to beta readers
and copy editor and revise again. The final go is painful and annoying but
there is a feeling of accomplishment when it’s ready to be rejected by hundreds
of agents and then ultimately published by myself on Amazon.
I
get so much satisfaction in the writing process. I take care to
choose just the right word, to make sure each sentence has the right
cadence. I appreciate other writers who respect the craft in this
way, and I hope my readers do so with me. Writing is a need, a desire
for expression, and springs from well within my subconscious mind.
Thoughts rise up, scenes rise up and blend in with the over-arching
story. These thoughts emerge whenever they want to and wherever I am
and probably not when I am at the computer. The computer is for the
craft, the technique. The thoughts come during walks, or while
driving the car, or at the grocery store. I am the willing recipient
of these thoughts and so they seek me out. It's a mystery this
business and art of writing and it keeps me enthralled.
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