{"id":3340,"date":"2013-11-25T06:00:22","date_gmt":"2013-11-25T10:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/?p=3340"},"modified":"2013-11-22T11:51:23","modified_gmt":"2013-11-22T15:51:23","slug":"what-inspires-us-to-write","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/?p=3340","title":{"rendered":"What Inspires Us to Write?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><a dir=\"\" id=\"yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1385132350478_13639\" tabindex=\"-1\" title=\"\" role=\"button\" href=\"http:\/\/us-mg5.mail.yahoo.com\/neo\/launch?.rand=4e38gm18ti316#\"><\/a>\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Rose-Behind-Gate.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3342 lazyload\" alt=\"Rose Behind Gate\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Rose-Behind-Gate.jpg\" width=\"560\" height=\"420\" data-srcset=\"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Rose-Behind-Gate.jpg 560w, http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Rose-Behind-Gate-300x225.jpg 300w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 560px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 560\/420;\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3342\" alt=\"Rose Behind Gate\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Rose-Behind-Gate.jpg\" width=\"560\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Rose-Behind-Gate.jpg 560w, http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Rose-Behind-Gate-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1385132350478_13627\">\n<div id=\"yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1385132350478_13626\">\n<div id=\"yiv7822813102\">\n<style><!--\n#yiv7822813102 p\n\t{margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;}\n#yiv7822813102 p\n\t{margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;}\n--><\/style>\n<div id=\"yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1385132350478_13625\">\n<div id=\"yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1385132350478_13624\">\n<p>What inspires us to write?<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1385132350478_13634\">When we are satified with our lives, feeling fulfilled and happy, do we feel the same need to create as when we are struggling?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1385132350478_13623\">I know that many of my books have come from a place of discontent as I\u00c2\u00a0work toward wrestling with the way the world so often works and my discontent with those ways. For me, especially with my romantic fiction, writing is a way to make the world resemble the place I would have it be: a place where true love always triumphs, where even the most unlikely men and women find the right person to live with in joy for the rest of their lives.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1385132350478_13628\">I am looking forward to writing Anthony sister&#8217;s story. Ann Carrington is the girl who is ruined and living alone in Richmond at the end of HOW TO TAME A WILLFUL WIFE, hiding from the world, from the man she fears and from her grief, which follows her everywhere. I am looking forward to watching her triumph over her pain, and find a real man to love instead of Victor Carlyle&#8217;s nasty treatment. Ann deserves better, and I want her to get it.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1385132350478_13629\">I suppose that is another reason I write: to make sure my characters are happy. I love to see happy people finding their way to each other, which is why romance is my favorite genre. There is a lot to be said for the words &#8220;And they lived happily ever after.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c2\u00a0 &nbsp; What inspires us to write? 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