Ask the Author: B.J. Hyman
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B.J. Hyman
My summer reading list:
The Girl in the Ice by Robert Bryndza
Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell
This is Where I Leave You by Jonathan Tropper
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
Dead End Girl by LT Vargus and Tim McBain
Sisters One, Two, Three by Nancy Star
A Head Full of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay
Yes Please by Amy Poehler
Not ambitious at all, huh? ;)
The Girl in the Ice by Robert Bryndza
Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell
This is Where I Leave You by Jonathan Tropper
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
Dead End Girl by LT Vargus and Tim McBain
Sisters One, Two, Three by Nancy Star
A Head Full of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay
Yes Please by Amy Poehler
Not ambitious at all, huh? ;)
B.J. Hyman
Due to KDP restrictions, it has to be exclusive for Amazon as an E-book for 90 days before wide release. The paperback doesn't have the same restrictions. It should be available soon. Usually takes a week or two after the original release to hit all markets. Thanks!!
B.J. Hyman
Put away what is blocking you and try to go in a completely different direction. Listen to music that has the "feel" you try to accomplish with your writing. Take a drive while listening to music. Read other books. Watch great TV or films. Something will eventually break the blockage loose.
B.J. Hyman
The best thing about being a writer is you get to play around with your daydreams.
B.J. Hyman
Take all those little ideas and put them in a box. Every once and a while, go through the box and see what gets the wheels turning. Take that idea (or group of ideas) and begin writing something. It may be your next big project or just a small poem, but you'll have delved into that wonderful practice of writing. It takes day after day of that same kind of practice to ever accomplish a full novel.
B.J. Hyman
I've got the short story, Lost: The Story of Preacher, that I had planned between the first two books of the Day Zero series in the cooker right now. I'm also beginning the outlining process for Lightning: The Book of Luke and Gina (book 2 of Day Zero).
B.J. Hyman
There are lots of ways I get inspired. Sometimes it's a random thought, some story that I came across that had an odd angle, some snippet of music that made my brain start humming... Just anything that gets my thoughts to rolling can be inspiration.
B.J. Hyman
I got inspired by the idea that we all have an "appointment" with death. I'm always missing appointments and wondered what could possibly be the consequences of missing that all important FINAL appointment. Day Zero was the answer.
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