I also come up with ideas when I’m looking out of the kitchen window, when I’m walking, driving, cooking, gardening, taking my kids to martial arts, helping with their homework, basically, every waking moment. Years later, I incorporated that dream, adding on some twists and turns of course, into book one from the Harmony Run Series, Prismatic. That student shared a dream about not being able to make a goal in a soccer match, and the professor dissected his dream in depth for fifteen minutes. After I finished talking, the entire class got eerily quiet and the professor told me I was dealing with issues beyond his realm of help, and went on to the next student’s dream. I bravely raised my hand, (this was huge for me, since I am very shy in person), and shared my dream in vivid detail. I woke up sobbing…About a year later, a psychology professor at my university asked some of us to share dreams with him so he could demonstrate dream analysis. When I got to the end of the corridor, I opened the last door, and he was standing there facing me. Back in college, the good ol’ stone ages, I had one of the most terrifying dreams of my life about a man with a triangular-shaped eye chasing me down a corridor, one door after the other, with this woman’s voice echoing all around us, telling him to kill me. I love using my dreams in my writing and have written a few of them into scenes in the Harmony Run Series. I can’t sit down and force myself to write everyday because it begins to feel too mechanical, but I am definitely one of those people who thinks about writing, story ideas, characters, scenarios all of the time, awake or asleep. In fact, if any of the books from my series could be made for film, I would beg producers to include one of those songs in the movies. Specifically, the songs Team and A World Alone. ) While I wrote Nacreous, and the other books in the Harmony Run Series, my favorite music warm-up to set the mood was Lorde.

I need it to be quiet in the room, so I can tell the story…(Ahem, hear what my characters are trying to tell me). So I might turn on some music that fits my mood for parts of the story and listen to it in my car or at my desk before I write, but not while I am actually writing. But as far as my writing process goes, the music is sort of my warm up. (Yes, I said classical and country in the same list). I believe in dance parties, and by dance parties I mean cranking up my I-pod to the music fitting my mood, be this salsa, classic rock, blues, country, classical, whatever, and dancing alone in my room or kitchen.

They have their playlist set in the background while they pen their latest manuscript. To kick off the blitz, here are a couple of “Fun Facts” about author's writing process… I hope you enjoy! Hooray, it is finally release day for Nacreous! Thanks for stopping by the fabulous Release Day Blitz, organized by b00k r3vi3w Tours. Buy NOW from Amazon - Paperback or Kindle

Against All Odds by Ju Ephraime