Elizabeth Fields
author
“I think that personal experience that you can draw from always makes a great story. If you can create fiction with a personal twist and insert some of yourself into it, you can’t go wrong.”
Darin Gabler
owner of The Bookworm
“Something unexpected that you somehow find yourself in, and you read something and reflect yourself back into it.”
Kathleen Ruiz
mom
“Emotions; it has to make you feel emotions.”
Blue Balcita
author
“It would have to be a meaning and a moral. Stories like Shakespeare and Jules Verne, all the stories that lasted over the centuries, they always had a moral and a feeling to it that resounds throughout the ages to different generations. That’s what makes a truly great story, when it has meaning and emotion that appeals to all people.”
This article appears in Aug 4-11, 2016.
