Ask the Author: P.H. Wilson
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P.H. Wilson
I am currently working on the next in my translation Pentalogy (or octalogy if you are technically a purist.) which is a collection of short stories by the literary savant Marcus Edwards.
P.H. Wilson
TKI was born out of someone reading a rough draft of an epic I have been working on and me asking for their opinion on the prose and them turning to me and saying I skipped over the prose and just read the dialogue. After this realisation, I asked several other people if they do this with the books they read and sadly the answer was yes.
P.H. Wilson
Make your choice now there are three avenues for writers. 1) The money maker, if that is what you are in it for then read every how to book on the market, sit at your computer and churn out 2,000 words a day and read everything else in your chosen genre. 2) The critic's darling, read every style and grammar book you can get your hands on. Have a few experiences and know how to embellish. Character depth is what matters here, push hard and you will get prestige instead of money. 3) Avant-garde. Seriously? You are making a very poor choice. but it is your choice. Go out, say yes to everything, experience everything and dwell deep within your own mind and blur your reality until you are fairly certain your life may already be a story written by someone else.
P.H. Wilson
I get to be creative. I get to experiment and play with the nature of literature. It might not be the most rewarding in terms of my finances, but I enjoy creating it is just as simple as that.
P.H. Wilson
I know it sounds archaic, but I rely on muses and those muses tend to be women, but ultimately your inspiration to write is your passion, that is why they say write what you know. It is not true, write anything you want, but the point is the passion is what will drive you and make you create something better and see it through to the end no matter how many rejections you get.
P.H. Wilson
Writer's block or the artistic reaper as I like to call it, is something we all face, but what I found is the moment I stopped putting some arbitrary quota on myself I started to be able to write without every really dealing with the reaper. Think of your brain like a well and if you drain that well daily it may not fill up again tomorrow and which would you rather litres of dirty brown mud water everyday or a cup full of sparkling clear water.
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