Ask the Author: Chris B. Bollweg
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Chris B. Bollweg
I've got big plans for 2016. I'm currently working on rewrites for my two novels I plan to release this year. I also have another short story collection and novella planned for this year, but if I can pull it off is another story all together. Fingers crossed.
Chris B. Bollweg
I don't get inspired to write. I write because it's what comes to me. However, my inspiration for the things I write about come from life, usually my wonderment or frustrations with other people. Human beings fascinate me, particularly those with a black and white mentality. Mostly because I can't tell if they're doing it for the show, or if they truly see the world with no middle ground.
Chris B. Bollweg
Everyone has their own methods for overcoming writer's block, so don't take this as solid advice. Firstly, I do anything creative that isn't writing. I'll read, play guitar, listen to music, watch movies or play games. While it seems like slacking off, I tend to chalk that up to "research time". I use other people's works as a way to look into the process of getting around the hangups in my own writing.
If I feel I've wasted enough time and the words still aren't flowing, I just hunker down and write my way through it. Any time you get writer's block, it's usually during the formative stage of a story, which will be mostly deleted or changed anyway. I take solace in the whole, "I'll fix it in the next draft" mantra. Otherwise, I'd agonize over getting everything perfect the first go, which is pointless and counterproductive to creativity. Perfection is a process, not an action.
If I feel I've wasted enough time and the words still aren't flowing, I just hunker down and write my way through it. Any time you get writer's block, it's usually during the formative stage of a story, which will be mostly deleted or changed anyway. I take solace in the whole, "I'll fix it in the next draft" mantra. Otherwise, I'd agonize over getting everything perfect the first go, which is pointless and counterproductive to creativity. Perfection is a process, not an action.
Chris B. Bollweg
Making your own hours. Staying up late and waking up whenever is a freedom everyone should be entitled to.
Chris B. Bollweg
I was watching a lot of Spaghetti Westerns, particularly Django and A Fistful of Dollars. I'd also wanted to write a story set in a Martian colony for quite some time. NaNoWriMo was coming up, I had been kicking around some world building ideas and researching the complexities behind human life existing on Mars, so everything seemed perfect to get it going. And my space western was born.
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