![]() ![]() Visited colleges 2 hours away to go through their microfiche. I crawled through old newspaper articles. For me the whole thing began when I ripped up some plywood flooring in my old house and found a 1927 newspaper article underneath.Ī few years later I stumbled onto the newspaper article in my files, did a little research, and became totally freaking obsessed. Anyone who’s fallen down a Wikipedia rabbit hole will understand how easy it is to latch onto a story and fall head over heels with every minute detail–particularly when you have a personal connection to the material. Or was it the other way around? It was a painfully overly-researched piece of historical fiction about a 1920s con man and a rodeo rider-turned-aspiring actress with the stage name of Vonceil Viking, and both of them were real people. It had several working titles: first Yours Radiantly, then Luna Park. Many things go into the junk drawer, but few claw their way back out.Ī few years before I came up with the idea for Salt Magic, I was working on another story. When something goes into the junk drawer, it might as well be falling into a bottomless pit. ![]() Worst of all are old scripts and pitches for projects that never went anywhere: the junk drawer projects. Old published work is bad enough, but at least those books passed through the hands of an editor. ![]() I can’t imagine anything more cringe-inducing than reading through my old work. I’m not a writer who enjoys looking back. ![]()
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