Laurel Shares About Writing and Her Favorite Recipe
I am welcoming Laurel Gans to Writer’s Corner. She is here to promote her book Waitlisted which is her debut novel. She is a recent graduate of Bowling Green State University and is currently a dental student at Ohio State University. What author has most influenced your writing? Jodi Picoult was the first author ever who was able to get me to sit still and read. When I was in high school I wanted to be able to write stories with complex plots and serious themes like she did. I soon realized that I can’t stay serious that long and I switched genres. How did you decide what kind of voice Kacey would have in the novel? When I first started writing Waitlisted , it was a few fun little scenes I wrote for a local reading. I had only ever written scripts in the past so naturally I was writing it as a play. I often had Kacey speaking casually to the audience. When I decided to switch it to a novel, I kept the natural way Kacey spoke to the viewers and made the story