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Cynthia Ann Baldini
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Readers ask me, “Where do you get your ideas?”
Everyone has probably heard the saying, “write what you
know.” If you’re an expert in a particular field you can probably attract
others who want to develop that skill, but hat sounds like advice for
non-fiction writers. What if you write fiction, and you aren’t an expert in any
field?
You can focus on what you know even when you write fiction.
In Immortal Venus my protagonist has many of my own characteristics: we
both hail from Richmond, Virginia, both got our degrees in art from VCU, and
both traveled to Italy. I use my familiarity with the locations and with art to
give a foundation of realism to what becomes an adventure into my imagination.
