Feel free to share your thoughts on what Tess Gerritsen said in this interview (http://www.writingforums.org/showthread.php?p=5148#post5148).

Are you Daniel?

Yes I am. :D

Hmmm she has some good pointers and gives some good advice.

I percifically liked that last question.

My last comment: The longer I've been in the storytelling business, the more convinced I am that storytellers are born, not made. Some people just know instinctively in which direction to take a plot, and they'll almost always veer down the path that offers the most conflict, the most drama. That's hard to teach to writing students. I don't know how to teach a sense of drama -- it's something you have to know all by yourself.

I agree with this and thought she ended the interview on a very constructive note.



~Raven.

I personally enjoyed her response to this question:

Lastly, if there were only one idea or concept you could teach a struggling, unpublished author, what would it be?

Tess: What's the one concept I'd teach a new writer? Follow your emotions. Pay attention to what makes you angry, scared, and horrified. Emotions are at the heart of your story. When I'm fishing around for a new idea for a book, I always choose the idea that gives me an emotional punch. For instance, VANISH was based on a news story about a young woman who was declared dead and later woke up in the morgue. That horrified me -- which is exactly why I chose it as the basis for my VANISH plot.