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" To create a character who really interests you, try combining aspects of your favourite fictional character with a real person. "
Caroline Lawrence
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Who
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" Now, if I had an Indian name, it would be 'Stands in Confusion'. "
Caroline Lawrence
Name
Indian
Confusion
" Plot is what happens in your story. Every story needs structure, just as every body needs a skeleton. It is how you 'flesh out and clothe' your structure that makes each story unique. "
Caroline Lawrence
Skeleton
Just
Body
" I loved every minute of my three years majoring in classics at Berkeley. "
Caroline Lawrence
Loved
Classics
Three
" I write about times and places I would visit in a time machine, like ancient Rome or the Wild West. "
Caroline Lawrence
Wild
Write
Time
" I thought it might be fun to set my books in Nevada, which is in the West and still pretty Wild. You can still gamble, carry a loaded pistol, and go into a silver-mine, and they still have saloons with swinging doors, boardwalks, and horses. "
Caroline Lawrence
Fun
Go
Thought
" Like every child growing up in America, I read 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer' and 'Huckleberry Finn.' I liked them well enough, but I didn't love them. "
Caroline Lawrence
Love
Growing Up
Enough
" When someone talks about Western films, you probably think of those old black and white cowboy films your granddad likes. But the Western is a wonderful genre because it is usually a story of a lone hero fighting against corruption in a dangerous world. "
Caroline Lawrence
Black And White
Hero
You
" When I was nine, we moved to Stanford University in San Francisco so that my father could do a Ph.D. I went to Terman Junior High in Palo Alto. It was terrible, because my hormones were all over the place, and I became an ugly adolescent full of rage and loathing. "
Caroline Lawrence
Place
Ugly
University
" Of the two 'True Grits,' the John Wayne version one is better. "
Caroline Lawrence
Better
John Wayne
True
" I wanted to know if the 'Iliad' in the original was as relevant and contemporary as it was in translation. I then started Latin. I had finally found something I enjoyed and was good at: dead languages! "
Caroline Lawrence
Started
Original
Dead
" After I had written seventeen full-length mysteries, two volumes of mini-mysteries, a travel guide and some quiz books, not to mention a spin-off Roman Mystery Scrolls series, I thought it was time I moved to new historical pastures. "
Caroline Lawrence
Mystery
Time
New
" At 16, when I was at Henry M. Gunn High School, I had a crush on the English teacher, and my grades improved dramatically. This great school had only 400 students, mostly children of Stanford professors, and it was more usual to have classes under one of the oak trees dotted around the campus than in the classroom. "
Caroline Lawrence
Children
Great
Trees