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Contact:
carolina.barbour@yahoo.com
ABOUT CAROLINA
Carolina Barbour
resides in Texas with her husband and two children. She has
always enjoyed reading as a pastime and spends a majority
of her time emerged in a good book. Since her first novel,
Pure Distraction, was accepted and published by Siren,
Carolina now finds herself typing away on the keyboard,
anxious to bring her readers the next installment to the
Pure series.
Carolina enjoys writing, and entertaining readers. She
hopes everyone will enjoy her next story as much as she is
enjoying writing it.
INTERVIEW
Q: How did you get started writing?
A: After years of wanting to be a writer, dreaming, I just
started typing one night on a story idea I had in my head a long
time. I stopped thinking about writing and started doing it.
Sometimes you have to just go for it, jump in feet first, and
see what happens.
Q: What is an average day writing like?
A: Actually, I rarely write during the weekday because I work a
full-time job that keeps me busy. I do most of my writing on the
weekends, starting around midnight until 6:00 in the morning
when my husband and kids go to bed.
Q: Do you do an outline of your story idea before
starting?
A: No, I never do a story outline. I tried it one time, and it
drove me crazy because I prefer to let the story flow as I
write. If I outline, I feel obligated to follow the outline, and
that sometimes makes for a dull story. I usually start a
manuscript by sitting down at my laptop and start typing. If I
do any prep work, it’s usually to jot down the character names,
one sentence storyline, and then go from there. I do a lot of
free-form writing. I just go with whatever I feel at the time. I
get the entire story down first, and then change and edit
afterwards to make sure it all makes sense.
Q: How long did it take you to write your first novel?
A: I wrote the rough draft for Pure Distraction in 6
weeks, then went through multiple weeks, editing the
manuscript. In all, I would say it took me three months from
beginning to submission.
Q: How do you keep the storyline/chapters together in your
head?
A: I haven’t figured that out yet. I use notes sometimes, but
mostly I scribble on any piece of paper available. When I feel
like I need to get organized (smile) I will use Notepad to jot
down thoughts. But mostly I just type, type, and type some
more. I worry about how the chapters flow and the story comes
together during the editing phase. |
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