Do you see much of yourself in your characters? Do they have any connection to your personality, or are they a world apart?Visit Ava Barry's website.
There’s a tiny bit of me in each of my characters. That might sound a bit cheesy, but I think it’s impossible to write a fully-fleshed out character unless you can relate to at least some aspect of them.
I thought my correlations were subtle, but after my best friend read the book, she called me with a list of things that I had pulled from my real life, and she was right about every single one of them. Whoops!
What non-literary inspirations have influenced your writing?
I have a long history of working in restaurants, and while the majority of my customers have been...[read on]
Q&A with Ava Barry.
--Marshal Zeringue
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