“Sit in a room and read–and read and read. And read the right books by the right people. Your mind is brought onto that level, and you have a nice, mild, slow-burning rapture all the time.”
Most writers, English teachers, and helpfully prodding parents like to quote the old adage “write what you know” when you fall into the abyss of writer’s block or cannot begin to fathom an idea for a class assignment. For the most part, I have stuck with that. Wholeheartedly.
And when I tell people that I have stuck with that and that the theme of my novel series is young adult supernatural, I get looks like, “So how many vampires do you hang around with?”
That’s not what I mean at all. Supernatural and mythological themes are what I know because I have been reading about them for ages. Most stories involve research. My story did involve real research, and I don’t mean Dracula. Continue reading
M. L. Trumbull 