Ask the Author: Terri Brown
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Terri Brown
This is not a "one size fits all" answer.
I guess, if I had to give some generic advice it would be:
a) to write what YOU want to read - you are going to have read, write, rewrite, reread, rinse and repeat many, many times. So make sure it is something that you want to read. If you want to read it - others will want to read it!
b) find something that is the reason you want to finish writing your book. Yes, the money, fame etc is all very well and good but find that tangible spark that pushes you. For me, with Shadow Man, my spark was the idea that if its good enough my idol Stephen King might tweet about it. That is my goal. To get Stephen King to tweet about my book. And every time I felt lazy or wanted to cut a corner I thought, "Would Stephen King tweet about this book if you did that?"
I guess, if I had to give some generic advice it would be:
a) to write what YOU want to read - you are going to have read, write, rewrite, reread, rinse and repeat many, many times. So make sure it is something that you want to read. If you want to read it - others will want to read it!
b) find something that is the reason you want to finish writing your book. Yes, the money, fame etc is all very well and good but find that tangible spark that pushes you. For me, with Shadow Man, my spark was the idea that if its good enough my idol Stephen King might tweet about it. That is my goal. To get Stephen King to tweet about my book. And every time I felt lazy or wanted to cut a corner I thought, "Would Stephen King tweet about this book if you did that?"
Terri Brown
I am currently working on two things. The sequel to Shadow Man - obviously! But I have also been contacted by a film company in Europe to write a script for a Cannes Film Festival submission, which is very exciting and I am sinking my teeth into the challenge.
Terri Brown
Everything inspires me to write. I have boxes of notepads with short stories, characters, story beginnings (which I have zero memory of where I was going with it), scribbled paragraphs and random descriptions of things I see.
I have never had a problem with being inspired.
I have never had a problem with being inspired.
Terri Brown
That is an interesting question and the honest answer is - I am not really sure. Before I began writing Shadow Man I was actually a few chapters into writing a dystopian, end of the world, sci fi. When I hit a bit of writers block on one story I tend to blow out the cobwebs by writing something else in a completely different genre. I started writing Shadow Man with very little idea of what it was I was going to be writing...and I couldn't stop. The characters came to me fully formed. The rough scaffolding of the story built itself before my eyes. I just went with the flow.
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