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JANUARY 8th QUESTION: Describe someone you admired when you were a child. Did your opinion of that person change when you grew up?
Barbara Walters was one of the first female journalist in our country. She was a talented news reporter, writer, and t.v. personality. Her interviewing skills were top-notch in my opinion. My opinion of her never changed. I received a full scholarship to study journalism and communications at Point Park University, Pittsburgh, and learned how difficult it was for women to become part of the male-dominated world for all the various media outlets. I am pleased to have worked for radio, television, industry, and education, using my writing and technical skills. I was also able to easily make the transition to writing fiction, since I already knew all the rules of correct grammar, punctuation, and formatting.
DECEMBER 4TH QUESTION: Do you write cliffhangers at the end of your stories. And are they a turnoff to you as a writer and/or a reader.
No, I do not writer cliffhangers for any of my short stories, novellas, or novels. I dislike not having a satisfying ending to any of my tales. And, I don't read works that use them. Personally, I think that it's a scheme writers employ with the hopes of enticing the reader to buy the next book for a resolution to the first one. It's can also be a way to garner a bad review if the reader feels he or she is being cheated of an ending or tricked into purchasing another book. All my works, including my series, are stand-alone works that can be read out of order.
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And you blazed the path for other young women to enter journalism.
ReplyDeleteNever liked cliffhangers in books.