Ask the Author: Eike-Henning Nießler
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Eike-Henning Nießler
As mentioned above, I don't think I have ever truly experienced it. I don't feel qualified in giving tips on how to avoid it.
Just write something I suppose, but that answer sounds condescending and unhelpful.
Just write something I suppose, but that answer sounds condescending and unhelpful.
Eike-Henning Nießler
As far as I'm aware, all people daydream. All people make up fantasies and fancies they live out in their head. If you get good at putting these in words, you can share your creativity with others and even shape the way they use their imagination.
At the very least you can store the ideas now outside of your own head, where they've been running around and making a fuss.
At the very least you can store the ideas now outside of your own head, where they've been running around and making a fuss.
Eike-Henning Nießler
There is only one thing I feel I have gotten down. Develop a writing habit. Set aside a time every day to write a limited number of words. Find out how many you can comfortably write, how many you can write maximum before it starts to drain you and set your goal for the day halfway between these two values.
If you can't do it every day, don't sweat it, but keep in mind, a long weekend can make or break a habit, so if you haven't written anything by day three, get your act together.
Everything and anything else connected to the writing process, I have no idea about. There is very many people with invaluable information you should seek out, before ever looking to me for advise.
If you can't do it every day, don't sweat it, but keep in mind, a long weekend can make or break a habit, so if you haven't written anything by day three, get your act together.
Everything and anything else connected to the writing process, I have no idea about. There is very many people with invaluable information you should seek out, before ever looking to me for advise.
Eike-Henning Nießler
My most recent project is a diesel-punk retro-future dime-novel adventure series, I have been developing with a writing partner. Visit my website for news about it soon.
Eike-Henning Nießler
Writing to me is as much a profession in which I wish to be successful, as it is a hobby I do to relax and enjoy myself. If I can't think of something for any given project, I write something silly, far out or experimental just for myself, with no intention to ever show it to anybody. Sometimes that sparks new projects, mostly it doesn't.
The point however is, that I never really have experienced the 'dread of an empty page' or 'writer's-block' per se.
The point however is, that I never really have experienced the 'dread of an empty page' or 'writer's-block' per se.
Eike-Henning Nießler
I have been dreaming up a specific story ever since I was in middle-school. When I tried to begin and write it down, I found myself lacking the skill and finesse to do justice to the vision I had of it in my head. Instead I started writing short stories as practice.
The Idea to write a book with an interconnected web of short-stories and then eventually the layered narrative of Liminality came when I finally resolved to write a full length novel, but still lacked the confidence to work on the original idea.
Liminality is finished and went through many rounds of revisions and polish. I have yet to start in earnest to work on the story that started it all.
The Idea to write a book with an interconnected web of short-stories and then eventually the layered narrative of Liminality came when I finally resolved to write a full length novel, but still lacked the confidence to work on the original idea.
Liminality is finished and went through many rounds of revisions and polish. I have yet to start in earnest to work on the story that started it all.
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