Ask Robin Archives
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Questions link to the post in which they appear. Note that a post can contain multiple questions or other content. The list is chronological, most recent first.
- Availability of ebooks
- I’m curious about the three drafts in a row [editors and editing]
- Was Pegasus intended from the outset to be a multi-volume story?
- Question about the vampire Con
- Books or other sources for Beauty and the Beast?
- In Hero, after Aerin defeats Agsded, she falls asleep and dreams three different scenes.
- What is hilliehoolie? You referred to it in Chalice…
- Were you at all inspired and/or influenced by Jean Cocteau’s Beauty and the Beast film in writing either of your Beauty and the Beast retellings?
- How do you convert ideas for stories you have into believable plots?
- What do you consider your writing strengths? Weaknesses?
- Have you ever written a scene and thought, “By gods, this is utter crap!”?
- How often do you edit your own work in progress?
- Where do you keep your notes (if you have any)?
- What does your writing space (if you have one) look like?
- Pegasus: Human-pegasus relations
- The Hero and the Crown: Does Aerin ever go back to Luthe?
- More about the writing process
- Literary device of separate books written from the point of view of different characters in the same story
- Sunshine: would you tell us a bit more from what you know about Mel
- Are there plans for novel based on “First Flight”
- What does malak taste like?
- Character names
- Recipes in Sunshine
- Writing fight scenes II
- Writing expanding to fill the time available
- Writing fight scenes I
- Different songs in American and British edition of Sunshine
- The make and model of your car
- About a sequel to Pegasus
- Why aren’t there e-versions of your books?
- Is there some secret about the short story Marsh-magic?
- About writing Sunshine
- How do you deal with story blank spots?
- Favourite bits from your books
- More about motivation to write
- About the Queen in Spindle’s End
- What are your personal criteria for dismissing a book as trash?
- Does chocolate inspire you to write?
- What is the best thing to keep yourself motivated as a writer, in your experience?
- How does one pronounce “foogit”? Hard g or soft g?