Ask the Author: R.R. Surbier
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R.R. Surbier
Same advice I've read from so many other talented authors: Just Write, & enjoy what you are writing.
R.R. Surbier
Meditation and music often get the creative juices flowing for me. ...or, blood magic... ;)
R.R. Surbier
I write whenever the muses inspire me, often including needing to get the dialog down at 2-4am-ish. I write mainly on my tablet and keep it with me most places. That way I can write whenever that next scene starts playing itself in my head, or the piece that will happen a few scenes later, or before. I rarely write linearly. Once I have an outline, my imagination often jumps around on that line, sometimes changing the line all together. (Kinda like a time traveler. :) ) So, I'm not sure if that says how I get inspired as much as that I'm ready when it does. Inspiration is to ethereal, that it's just there whenever I have a quiet minuet to let my imagination play.
R.R. Surbier
I'm currently working on the second book in the Wonder series, Wonder in the Prime. It follows the first book, Madness and Wonder, published in June 2015. Being that what I'm currently writing continues the story of Madness and Wonder, I can't say much about the plot without it spoiling the end of the first book. For more of what I'm working on, and some short stories from the Wonder setting, check out my blog www.facetsofwonder.com
R.R. Surbier
I Like letting the voices in my head out to play, and finding the path their stories will take. I also love the thought that when my readers experience where my brain went, it's kinda like I'm getting to turn on their imaginations; and you never know what bit of Wonder, or emotion felt, might someday spark some real magic.
R.R. Surbier
The world concept had been with me since childhood, a 'what if' I played with often. I mean, what if the Fey had once been real, occasionally marrying in to human families hundreds of years ago? What if they had to flee to other dimensions when when the age of reason broke magic? And what if their descendants with humans could still be living amongst us? Magical people with subtle secret gifts, not even aware that they had magic until enough of them were close enough to kindle their magic sparks. The Fey could have left hundreds of years ago, but could still look after their kin through inter-dimensional dream walking. It was an idea that grew with me to adulthood, but I didn't call them Fey-born until I wrote Madness and Wonder. I had a vague idea for what story I wanted to tell, but it wasn't until a dream I had about two years ago, a variation on the opening scene between Hatter and Rosie, that I got the real seed of the story. Once I started writing, the epic love of Hatter and Rosie was born, and magic saved.
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