KATIE MARIE

Author Interview: ‘A Man in Winter’ by Katie Marie

Do you have a plan in your head of where the story is going before you start writing or do you let it carry you along as you go?

I break my projects down a lot.

Ultimately I am a planner, I start with a rough idea, spread that out a bit then I will plan, meticulously, how I get from plot point to plot point by planning each chapter.

I’m often asked if I get bored, because there’s no mystery when I write, by the time I start actively writing I know exactly what’s happening and when. I beat the boredom by having multiple projects on the go at once.

I will plan out a novel and then write a chapter a week until that draft is done. Then I will put it down and pick up another project. Once that project phase is done, I will return to the original project, now having had a decent break from it, and pick it up for edits.

Again, I break it down to a chapter or two a week. So over all it can take me a couple of years to actually finish a big project, but that includes long periods of ‘We’re on a break’. It stops me getting bored and allows me to have several projects on the go at any one time.

For example, I am actively working on three big projects at the moment. I am in the planning phase of my PhD project, the editing phase of a novella, and the selling stage of a novel. While in these stages I am also writing a couple of short stories, and researching & writing weekly uploads for my website.

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