Today I welcome author Tani Mura to the blog to tell us a little about her inspiration and her latest release, Kindreds: An Alliance of Bloods. Over to you, Tani....
THREE THINGS THAT INSPIRE
MY WRITING
One day, amid final exams
and the hell that was my Master’s thesis, I decided to sit down and write.
It was as if everything
that was bottled up – all my inspirations, my thoughts, my creativity – just received
the go-ahead to release. That night I began writing Kindreds: An Alliance of
Bloods in my tiny studio apartment in Cambridge Massachusetts, I had no
outline, no working title – nothing except the characters – and only a vague
notion of what I wanted to write. I remember reveling in my newfound freedom;
for someone who had spent years in the world of academia, painstakingly crafting
concise theses and preparing detailed outlines before I can finally sit down
and write, the world of creative writing was liberating.
