Ask the Author: Chuck Van Soye
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Chuck Van Soye
Start writing, and don't stop until you complete a chapter. Then read it to someone else, and listen to their reaction. More likely than not, you will bask in the glow of their statements. Then let those sweet words energize your ongoing efforts.
Chuck Van Soye
Firstly, it's enjoyable. Hard work, yes. But the satisfaction of completing something that can provide pleasure to others for decades or centuries makes the effort supremely worthwhile.
Chuck Van Soye
After contemplating the direction the story should likely follow, I simply start typing whatever comes to mind. Maybe I'll get a couple of words down, or a sentence or two, and maybe backspace them out and start over. Perhaps a whole paragraph will follow. Maybe not. But that activity on the keyboard starts the juices flowing, and before long, a flurry of thoughts and ideas start to darken the paper, and I'm on my way. The important part is to start typing. Something. Anything. Then let 'er rip.
Chuck Van Soye
I'm currently editing a book by another author that has just recently completed a 14-month expedition around the world, visiting 50 countries on six continents, and trekking to the ten most remote parts of the earth.
Chuck Van Soye
During a visit to the Fountain of Youth attraction in old St. Augustine. "Why not jump in and become a teenager again," I mused.
And that's what the book is all about. An aged couple become teenagers again overnight, thanks to the reaction between those waters and their odd DNA.
And that's what the book is all about. An aged couple become teenagers again overnight, thanks to the reaction between those waters and their odd DNA.
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