Ask the Author: Trent Wauson
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Trent Wauson
Write anyway! Write something! Even if you erase it the next day because you hate it, write! A day will come when you love what you have done!
Trent Wauson
Being your own boss is fantastic! And that adrenaline rush that comes from the completion of a manuscript is addicting. Your life is literally in your hands every day of your life.
Trent Wauson
Give it your best each day with no vacations. Work on a schedule, one that you make on your own. Operate at the same time on all days.
If you decide to go on a trip, take your laptop and work at the same time every day you are gone., even if it is just a paragraph or two, keep writing!
Before I began my first book, my sweet Bolivian wife coaxed me by saying, "Just one paragraph a day, sweetheart! That is all I am asking of you! I know there is a great writer inside of you!"
That is also my best advice to an aspiring author! You will find that you will be giving more than that one paragraph. One who loves writing will not be able to stop there!
If you decide to go on a trip, take your laptop and work at the same time every day you are gone., even if it is just a paragraph or two, keep writing!
Before I began my first book, my sweet Bolivian wife coaxed me by saying, "Just one paragraph a day, sweetheart! That is all I am asking of you! I know there is a great writer inside of you!"
That is also my best advice to an aspiring author! You will find that you will be giving more than that one paragraph. One who loves writing will not be able to stop there!
Trent Wauson
I am ready to tell the story of our next nine years in Samaipata, Bolivia. The third book of my trilogy will include many more facets of my Bolivian experience including a dig into life under socialist rule and other touchy political matters concerning the little dictator, Evo Morales. I will include a variety of new characters and even a factual eyewitness account of the Che Guevarra episodes which occurred in and around Samaipata. Volume three will hopefully be even more entertaining and humorous as the first two...if that is possible!
Trent Wauson
Since I am retired, I set a daily schedule. Awake at 6:00 am, have my coffee, watch the news, shower, dress like I am going to work (not formally of course) then I move to the seclusion and beauty of my office which I decorated nicely enough that I wish to spend the entire morning there. I read the last few paragraphs that from yesterday's manuscript additions, make a few corrections, then try to translate myself into the story I am telling. I attempt to live in the moment. Once I begin to add new material, I find that I become lost in the tale. Time flies, and it is no longer 'work' but entertainment for me!
Trent Wauson
Good morning, At this moment, my writing ideas for the trilogy 'Last Chance for Adventure' come from personal memories during the first years of my life as an expat in Bolivia. I am so fortunate that I have plenty of material from which I can draw!!
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