Have I ever played a ouija board like my characters in The Blue Man?
What happens when Megan and Sabrina play the ouija board?
Author Q&A today, inspired by a reader of The Blue Man who asked me: “Have you ever played a ouija board like your characters in The Blue Man”?
Before I get into the answer to that question, here’s a question that I have for you. Do you think that authors write about things they have experienced, or do they use imagination, or both?
I might have given you a hint there about my answer to the ouija board question, ha ha. Regarding the topics in my writing, I tend to rely on real events for initial inspiration, and continue the bulk of my story using imagination, but it’s a mix of both, honestly.
Regarding my imagination, I have always had a huge imagination – daresay an overactive imagination – and I’m always posing ‘what ifs’ about situations. It’s for this reason that I’m an author. Writing is a good outlet for all of my overactive musings; and that is quite enough for me to contend with, thank you very much!
Leilanie Stewart is an award-winning author and poet from Belfast, Northern Ireland. She writes ghost and psychological horror, as well as experimental poetry. Her writing confronts the nature of self; her novels feature main characters on a dark psychological journey who have a crisis and create a new sense of identity. She began writing for publication while working as an English teacher in Japan, a career pathway that has influenced themes in her writing. Her former career as an Archaeologist has also inspired her writing and she has incorporated elements of archaeology and mythology into both her fiction and poetry.
In addition to promoting her own work, Leilanie runs Bindweed Anthologies, a creative writing publication with her writer husband, Joseph Robert. Aside from publishing pursuits, Leilanie enjoys spending time with her husband and their lively literary lad, a voracious reader of sea monster books.
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