But based on my experience, it’s the other way around. “Creative people sometimes believe that they need to wait for inspiration, for the incredible idea, for the muse to visit, before they can begin work. Along with words of wisdom on topics around productivity, she provides encouragement that every creative person could use: Sharing her process is a gift to other writers. Knowing that I’m reaching the amount of hours designated for that week inspires me to keep working.” I find word count goals frustrating, personally, because cutting words means backward progress, so I always use time. I want to make steady progress each week toward reaching some version of a completed draft (beginning, middle, and end). “When I’m working on a first draft, I set time goals. There, she describes the nitty gritty work of scheduling her time and focusing her energy on a writing project. She has given quite a lot of thought to her process and to the act of writing in general and keeps a blog on the topic. For Yvonne, adopting a puppy more than a decade ago pulled her homeward from the hours she’d set aside for her day-to-day writing time.
The best location for writing is often circumstantial.
It was, however, a happy coincidence that she could visit those great independent bookstores as an author after the book was published. And while the Hoboken bookstore that the mother of the main character in Black Flowers, White Lies owns might bring readers of Little City Books or Symposia to mind, neither existed at the time Yvonne was writing that particular novel.
Using places from her memory allowed her to see the basement laundry room where a crucial scene plays out and to envision the way to the PATH train or the walk down to Sybil’s Cave. The Steven’s Institute of Technology campus plays a role in Black Flowers, White Lies as do locations where Yvonne once lived - 77 River Street and an apartment on Bloomfield Street. These oft-told tales are masterfully folded into Yvonne’s narrative so that a reader outside of the Mile Square City might be led to do a quick Google search to check for their possible authenticity and likely get a kick out of the rabbit hole read. The bride who has haunted Hoboken’s Brass Rail since 1904 gets a mention as do the spirits of Arthur’s Tavern legend. She took as good fortune the fact that Hoboken has a slew of ghost stories documented and awaiting her literary use of them. Ghosts - sometimes from familiar folklore and other times invented for the purpose of the story - appear in tangible locations in author Yvonne Ventresca’s YA thriller Black Flowers, White Lies. Read More: Symposia Bookstore: A Hidden Gem on Washington Street A Tale Set in Hoboken She can still take liberties to service the story - she added a fictional animal shelter and cemetery to the Hoboken of Black Flowers, White Lies - but the general world-building is already done. She finds her creative work to fabricate characters and the dramatic circumstances they encounter is made easier by the establishment of the known parameters that real locations provide.
Yvonne incorporates real locations in her writing to root the fictional stories she invents into recognizable realities she can see on a map.
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