Changing the rhythm can spark new connections. Your brain becomes accustomed to rhythms. Journaling about yourself opens up connections about your characters. Here are some tips for unlocking your heart: The key to tapping into the heart of your story is accessing the subconscious, where your mind stores your deepest fears, hopes, and dreams, and applying those connections to your character’s situation. Sometimes though, our points of inspiration are not so clear. I could not stop thinking about these families, even years later, when I finally picked up a pen and started writing. I became a volunteer for an effort to bake 96,000 cookies to raise funds for pediatric cancer research. The utter helplessness of their situation broke my heart. I checked their blog for updates every morning, even though I dreaded any news. At that point in my life, I’d become acquainted with pediatric cancer through friends whose son had fallen ill with neuroblastoma. Even a sibling like Thyme, who has to leave her life behind so that her little brother can seek treatment in New York City. When I sat down to write Counting Thyme, the only truth I knew was that childhood cancer was completely unfair.
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