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MICHAEL SCOTT, Author of THE ENCHANTRESS:I'm not sure I would want to be immortal - as Machiavelli says, to remain young when all around you are dying: that's hard.
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ESTHER FRIESNER, Author of SPIRIT'S PRINCESS:"Ferd, the Fish That Flew" was the first one I wrote.
However, I used to dictate stories and poems to Mom before I knew how to write. If those count, the first one of those I remember coming up with was called "Mariann and the Peacock."
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MARIAH FREDERICKS, Author of THE GIRL IN THE PARK:I need routine. I get up, get kid to school, then eat breakfast and drink coffee while I check out news and email. Then I go write a page, clean a little. Write a page, clean a little. Or hang out on Random Buzzers. This is way more fun than cleaning!
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EVE EDWARDS, Author of The Queen's Lady:As a happily married woman I feel a flirt to think this but I suppose I would not turn down Captain Wentworth and get swept away with a man who has seen more of the world than Austen's other heroes.
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Robin Wasserman, Author of The Book of Blood and Shadow:I've never actually cut a character in the middle of a book. I can see that it could be necessary sometimes, but it seems like it'd be heartbreaking.
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Daniel Kraus, author of Rotters: I have serious qualms about digging up a grave. Who doesn't?? Who are these people you know who don't have qualms?!?? View Reaction -
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JAMES DASHNER, Author of "The Maze Runner":I'd choose to be living it up in the Capitol before Katniss ruined everything in Mockingjay...
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Peadar O'Guilin, Author of The Inferior:I definitely wouldn't enter the world of one of my own books :) I think I would like to have a cup of tea and a large breakfast in the company of Bilbo Baggins from The Hobbit, although D.M. Cornish's world from Monster Blood Tattoo would be marvelous for any tourist!
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Alexandra Monir, Author of "Timeless":People-watching is a great way to come up with ideas for characters and their appearance. Watching movies and scripted TV series can also be good for jogging your inspiration- it helps you visualize all the different characters and looks out there.
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JOSH BERK, Author of Guy Langman:I sort of want to say Shakespeare just because an obit in iambic pentameter is oddly appealing to consider. Or maybe Raymond Chandler -- a great crime writer, and man, he could sure pen a description.
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RJ Palacio, Author of WONDER:I'd like to say that I would hope that I would have come to terms with my face and would opt against surgery, but then again, if surgery could fix an aspect of my face that I simply hated, then why not do it? I guess i really don't know.
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LISSA PRICE, Author of Starters:I'm tempted to say Angelina Jolie - I mean, that figure, that wonderful family, being an ambassador, and Brad Pitt... come on! Of course there is also the Dalai Llama....
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CAITLIN KITTREDGE, Author of "The Nightmare Garden":I am *not* one of the lucky ones! I definitely outline and I make notes in the manuscript as I go to remind myself which scene should happen next. It's not very organized but it works for me!
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LAURA RESAU, Author of "The Jade Notebook":I'd like to be the fire-dancer or the trapeze artist or the aerial dancer (who uses long strips of fabric hanging from the ceiling). Believe it or not, I've actually thought about this quite a bit already!
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KATE KLIMO, Author of "Daughter of the Centaurs":I think a centaur would win because, the unicorn's horn notwithstanding, the centaur would be able to wield a weapon, a sword as sharp as a unicorn's horn in fact, and go in for the kill. Not that I would encourage these two to fight. Why can't we all just get along?
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LAUREN KATE, author of "Fallen":The line in Genesis (6:1-4) which talks about angels looking down from Heaven and seeing that the mortal women on earth were beautiful suggesting that this angered God and eventually these angels had to give up their place in Heaven for that love. It made me wonder who that girl would have to be.
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KIMBERLY MARCUS, Author of "Exposed":Too many poets to mention them all, though I do love Billy Collins, Ted Kooser and Mary Oliver. One of my favorite free verse novels is Stop Pretending, by Sonya Sones.
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ROBIN BRIDGES, Author of The Gathering Storm:Novels give me the chance to explore the world my characters live in so much more than short stories do! And with the trilogy, Katerina's character can really grow and change from the person she is in the beginning of Book One to the person she becomes at the end of Book Three.
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CAROLINE B. COONEY - Author of The Lost Songs:I love happy endings, and I am glad to say that life includes many of them. If I don't have a happy ending in a book, at least I want the good guys to win, and I want the possibility of everything working out well as the characters' lives go on, beyond the story I told.
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Christopher Paolini, author of "Inheritance":Put people in danger and then work out very logically each physical action from there. Do they cower? Do they duck? Jump, run, attack? It's pretty simple cause and effect.
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