Ask the Author: R. Roderick Rowe
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R. Roderick Rowe
There are professions where the only reason someone would enter them is due to internal drive and irresistible force. Writing is one of them. You don't write because you want to be famous, which is what many "aspiring" writers really want down deep inside. You write because you HAVE to; because the characters your over-active imagination has created are driving you to distraction with their antics. As a gay man, I've often told those far-right zealots who seek out gays to bully that NO one would ever volunteer to be beat up, spat upon, ridiculed, excluded from events and family gatherings, in order to love another man. You do that because you have no choice. Same thing for writers. It's not something you sit down one day and "just do it" as the old adage goes. So, is that advice? I don't know. There are an awful lot of awful writers out there who think they've just written the next great American novel. Maybe I'm one of them. I certainly see a lot of people running for cover when I mention my latest work. LOL
R. Roderick Rowe
I've always got something under construction on my 'puter. If I hit a block on any ongoing work, I just go back and start editing. For me, "blocks" are all about lack of creative inspiration. When the muses flee, going back and re-working already written content reconnects me to the overall story. As I'm cleaning up a sentence, or a paragraph or even noticing something odd about how a concept is presented, I'll often get a flash of inspiration to kick me back into creative mode. Then I just jump to the area where the inspiration sends me and start drafting again.
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