Sunday Whoever.

We consider ourselves extremely fortunate at LS Towers to interact with so many interesting writers. One such who has been with us since 2018 when we published the first of her unusual and fascinating stories. If you haven’t had a look at her back catalogue do yourself a favour and visit L’Erin Ogle forthwith – but read the interview first!

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Hello L’Erin
 
Congratulations,  the team at Literally Stories want to know a lot more about you!  You may have seen in the weekend roundups that we are introducing a new feature for one Sunday in each month. Our Get To Know the Authors feature is a writer interview to give you the opportunity to let us into your deepest darkest secrets – Oh, apparently I can’t ask you that – so follows a list of questions. If you don’t wish to take part please let us know and then we will assume your secrets are very deep and very very dark because after all, what writer doesn’t want to talk about their craft!?
 
– What topic(s) would you not take on?
– What in your opinion is the best line you’ve written?
– Would you write what you would consider shite for money?
– Will you ever go Woke with your writing and use pronoun / non-descript characters and explore sensitive issues in an understanding and sensitive way?
– Type something surprising.
– Do you see something different in a mirror that others don’t when they look at you?
– The future – Bleak or hopeful?
– What would you like to like as you hate that you hate it?
– Records? Tapes? Or CDs?
-What percentage of their time do Dogs spend thinking about making Alpha Dog?
 
We intend to publish your interview on Sunday ?? ???
 
Thank you
The LS team.

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L’Erin’s responses:

Hmmmm, topics I wouldn’t take on…I hesitate to make myself look bad, but anything historical or that would require a great deal of research. I definitely do not possess any kind of organizational skills or the memory needed to pull it off. Could I force myself to do it? Sure, but it would take the joy out of writing for me! I like making up things as I go, definitely not a plotter or outliner, and having to stop to look things up would derail me!

The best line?!? I can’t pick one but I do have a favorite paragraph from “The Girl Who Ate Galaxies.”

“I don’t know what I’m supposed to become. I feel my skin tight around me, snug on my skeleton. My skin is more scar than flesh. I wear the past tattooed all around me like a secret language.”

Would I write absolute shite for money?

Oh my god yes if it means I don’t have to have a job anymore

Will I go Woke?

I don’t think I ever think about what I write long enough to consciously choose something. I know it sounds crazy but I just sort of brain vomit from sentence one on! So probably not. I typically wrote how I talk and write from experience so I just try to be honest in what I’m saying and how I portray people and situations. I mean, I write a lot of pissed off female characters who do really bad things and I don’t plan on toning that down anytime soon.

Type something surprising

I have been stabbed by a human femur that did not belong to me.

Do you see something different in the mirror that others don’t when they look at you?

I think I’m pretty realistic about both my appearance and self. I would describe myself as a woman hovering on the edge of middle age who’s full of rage.

Ok fine. I am actually probably considered middle aged. You got me.

The future-bleak or hopeful?

When I look at the world around us, I do at times feel hopeless.

When I observe my elementary school child, or her friends, I feel hopeful.

So, both?

What would you like us to hate as you hate?

For profit healthcare

Records, tapes, CDs?

 streaming or radio!

Alpha dog-

If we’re talking about needing to be the alpha at mealtime, 100%. But I might be thinking of myself.

So I’ll say 27% because I’ve had doggos that needed to be in charge and doggos that only thought of cheese 90% of the time.