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Rachel E. Bailey
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Rachel E. Bailey
I sulk. I read. I watch television. I try to cultivate a hobby and fail miserably. I tell myself that that's it . . . I finally ran out of words. A few weeks or even months may pass. Then someone says something memorable, or does something questionable, or I feel something that wants exploring, and I tell myself it isn't writing to put down a few words. But eventually, I have a story or an essay or a poem--or even just a well-worded rant. But it's something. And like that, the words start to come again. Writer's block is just my psyche's way of giving me time to rest and replenish the good stuff.
Rachel E. Bailey
Writing is the best thing about being a writer. The next best thing, and a close second, is being read and appreciated.
Rachel E. Bailey
Observe what goes around you. Read and read and read. Anything. Everything. Then observe and read some more. If, somewhere in all that observation and reading, you're not inspired to take up your pen or keyboard, I don't know what to tell you.
Rachel E. Bailey
I'm working on a novel tentatively titled: "Super." It's a sincere and loving send-up of the superhero genre. It takes place in Metro City, right after an attempted terror attack by a supervillain: The Green Knight. The novel follows the life of the heroes, villains, sidekicks, minions, and ordinary people the almost-attack touched. It features such luminaries as The Stranger, L'Straga, Crimson Casey, The Non-Denominator, Acrobat, The Tartan Hombre, Blind Justice, Mistress De'ath, Mentallo, Blue Blazes and the Lightning Lass, and many others.
Rachel E. Bailey
Sometimes it's as simple as a word or a name that I like. Sometimes it's an entire prompt or a complex feeling I need to work my way through to understand. It can be the darnedest things that inspire me, sometimes. I once wrote a short story to a prompt about why it should never rain bubblegum. It's actually a pretty good piece, if I do say so, myself. And I do :-)
Rachel E. Bailey
My most recent completed novel is called "In Shining Armor," and it'll be published under my pseudonym, E. L. Phillips. I got the idea for it from a writing group I was attending. The facilitator gave out prompts and the one I chose was meant to be a short story. Then I kept writing it and writing it even after the forty-five minute group was over. It soon went from short story, to novelette, to novella, then to prospective novel. I went nearly a year before writing the second half because I got stuck. Wrote myself into a corner, so to speak. But then a friend gave me the inspiration to continue because she wanted to know how it ended. And so did I. I finished writing "In Shining Armor" in two to three weeks, perhaps almost a month, after I took it up again.
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