Ask the Author: Stan Jones
Answered Questions (4)
Stan Jones
Play a couple games of Spider Solitaire, listen to some rock and roll music, read the last couple of pages from the previous writing session.
Or, sometimes, I've been thinking for a day or two I need to go back and tweak something earlier in the story--a line of dialog, a character description, something minor, not a massive rewrite. Oftentimes that will pull me right back into the story.
Or, sometimes, I've been thinking for a day or two I need to go back and tweak something earlier in the story--a line of dialog, a character description, something minor, not a massive rewrite. Oftentimes that will pull me right back into the story.
Stan Jones
A very elderly Nathan Active fan--now departed, sadly--suggested a story about a woman's body walled up in a house. The result was "Ghost Light," the new volume in the Nathan Active series. Except it's not a house where the body's been stashed, it's a traditional Inupiat Eskimo ice cellar in the permafrost near the Arctic village of Chukchi!
Stan Jones
Give yourself permission to write a crappy first draft. You'll get there quicker and you'll be less likely to get paralyzed by writer's block.
Stan Jones
He involuntarily reached down to grab the severed hand on the floor. That's when he realized it was his own.
About Goodreads Q&A
Ask and answer questions about books!
You can pose questions to the Goodreads community with Reader Q&A, or ask your favorite author a question with Ask the Author.
See Featured Authors Answering Questions
Learn more