Name: Mary R. Woldering

Pen name (if any):

Age (optional):66

Where you live (optional)Euclid, OH

1) How long have you been writing? Since I knew how to make letters

2) What or who was your inspiration to write?

I really don’t know I think I was an unsuccessful or minorly successful author in several past lives. My Dad wrote but I didn’t know that until I was almost adult.  He self published a series shortly before his death.

3) Which genre do you like to read? Why?

That’s hard to say. I’ve read many genre: fantasy, historical, romance, erotic, paranormal, science fiction.
I just like a book that can hold my attention

4) Do you write this genre or others?

Why? I just discovered my genre might as well be Paranormal Fantasy.  I don’t know why I write in this genre. That’s just how the stories come out.

5) Who are your favorite authors?

Many. Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, reading Kola Boof off and on.

6) How do you create your characters?

They came to me in dreams, meditation and through regressions.  I see them.  In one case (In the series I am writing) a spirit guide inserted himself in the book. He was a group guide for my friends and I about 40 years ago.  When I began re-writing in about 2010 I noticed his influence in some parts again.  We actually co-wrote a poem that I post nearly every Halloween/Day of the Dead.

7) Do you give them names before you develop them?

The provisional names come to me the same way as the characters do. If they don’t make sense (as in time and period of history, I look them up and make corrections. My main character Marai always had the same name.  The “villain” was named Horsaphet at first, and I knew he was a priest or a scholar in the late 4th dynasty in Egypt, but when I did research I found a reference to a Hordjedtef who was one of the wisest men in his era and a priest. Through his writing and a little known folk tale about him came the “historical” focus for the fantasy

Actually that was kind of creepy. there were a dozen (at least) more of those. My granddaughter was born with a similar deformity to one of the females in my book (and resembled her in coloring and meaning of her name…but I thought of that character in part in the 1970’s…She was born just this year.

8) How do you choose your characters names?  When I don’t “get” the name in my mind, I meditate until SOMETHING comes, then apply the vetting process as above.

9) Do you edit as you write or after you get your manuscript written?

All of these -about 4-5 go overs.

10) Do you have an agent, publisher, or self-publish? Self-publish

• What advice have you received to help you and what advice would you give a new writer?

Start to publish earlier than I did, while you are young. Don’t think your stuff is unworthy or not ready. No matter how long polish it, some will love it and others will start gagging on the first paragraph.

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