{"id":155,"date":"2012-08-20T16:09:15","date_gmt":"2012-08-20T20:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chistell.com\/africanamericanfiction\/?p=155"},"modified":"2016-10-08T23:54:45","modified_gmt":"2016-10-09T03:54:45","slug":"material-to-write-entertaining-books-with","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chistell.com\/africanamericanfiction\/material-to-write-entertaining-books-with\/","title":{"rendered":"Material to Write Entertaining Books With"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Denise Turney<\/p>\n

When you pause to consider your life, the twists and turns, you\u2019ve gone through, the myriad of experiences you have had while a portion of the limitless YOU<\/em> inhabited your body, it may be easy for you to see that you have material for an awesome story. Regardless of the number of years you have been on earth, you are marvelous. Facts be told, if you had to keep a journal of your every thought and action, you might struggle to find enough paper to hold your story.<\/p>\n

Finding Material to Write Novels With<\/strong><\/p>\n

The material you\u2019d write your story, your autobiography<\/a> or memoir with would come from your memories, the very same resources that shape the way you feel right now (at this very second), the very same resources that create your level of comfort with trying new things. Oh, memories . . . they can pack a wallop. It\u2019s a reason it\u2019s a blessing to hold onto memories that make you feel peace, love and joy and let other memories go.<\/p>\n

But what if you\u2019re writing a novel? Where, then, do you get the material to write with?<\/p>\n

Believe it or not, to some degree, you will get the material from the same place the material to write your autobiography comes from \u2013 within yourself. Sometimes I wonder if that\u2019s what makes writing so emotional, so moving, so therapeutic for authors and book readers.<\/p>\n

I also wonder if using inner resources is what separates literature from novels that are written primarily to get cash registers ringing. The good thing is you don\u2019t have to be a book writer to know, to feel<\/em>, where a novelist is getting the material for his books from. All you have to do is continue reading stories he\u2019s written.<\/p>\n

Why Novels Feel Real<\/strong><\/p>\n

In fact, after my first novel Portia<\/span> was released in 1998 readers emailed me and told me they just knew<\/em> I was from Chicago, Illinois (the city Portia<\/span> is set in). I\u2019m from Ohio. Despite how many times I told the book\u2019s readers I wasn\u2019t from Chicago, they didn\u2019t believe me. To this day I think that was due to the research I did in preparation to write Portia<\/span> and to the way I used material from within myself to create the book\u2019s characters, namely Portia.<\/p>\n

About five years later, when I released my third novel, Spiral<\/span>, readers told me I was from Memphis, Tennessee (the city Spiral<\/span> is set in). By that time I\u2019d learned that when authors\u2019 material comes from within, the stories those authors write feel authentic, feel real<\/em>.\u00a0 Readers appreciate that.<\/p>\n

And it takes so little work on the author\u2019s part. It\u2019s a matter of simply allowing information to come to us, to rise up from within. Songwriters, musicians, painters, scriptwriters and even actors and actresses do it. It\u2019s that authenticity that readers and movie viewers are drawn to, even while reading and watching fiction stories<\/a>, poems and multi-dimensional sci-fi thrillers. At the core people know the stories aren\u2019t real. However, they feel so real<\/em> (due to where the material they were created with came from) that readers don\u2019t want to turn away, don\u2019t want to stop reading.<\/p>\n

Thank you for reading my blog. To learn what happens to Raymond, Brenda and the other characters in <\/em>Love Pour Over Me<\/em><\/a>, hop over to Amazon.com, B&N.com, <\/em>Ebookit.com<\/em><\/a> and get your copy of Love Pour Over Me<\/span> today. And again I say \u2013 Thank You! Even if you choose not to purchase your copy of Love Pour Over Me<\/span> today, I encourage you to \u201cconsider Love<\/span>.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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