Ask the Author: S. Escobar
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S. Escobar
It isn't always intentional, but reading others' work always has me lunging for pen and paper. So many books I've left unread because I became too obsessed with my own story ideas to pick them back up again.
S. Escobar
Keep everything you write! Sometimes there will be sentences, or just descriptions, that won't make the final cut into your draft. Save all those fragments in another document for future stories. You never know, what you wrote may be meant for something else.
S. Escobar
There has never yet been another fictional book world to inspire me like that of Tolkien's Lord of the Rings, and I'm sure there never will be. If I could travel to Middle Earth - and see the innumerable sights, from Erebor to Mirkwood, to The Shire to Mordor - I would love to study the vast history of the world and travel it discreetly, with a hood over my head and some parchment in a pack to write on, and simply record what I see and learn. I would drink in the Green Dragon, smoke some pipe-weed, eat Lembas bread, have stories (maybe songs though) told to me by Tom Bombadil, and uncover mysteries of the Maiar.
S. Escobar
"A Song Beyond Walls" had always been a tiny seed of inspiration: the piano, the crumbling old house, the lonely man who desperately waits to hear the phantom play; but once I saw the painting "Spirite" (1885) by George Roux it was really very clear. Finally, it all came together when I was pursuing an anthology about a romantic ghost story centered upon Samhain, the thinning of the veil between the world of the living and the dead.
S. Escobar
Dracula, The Shining, Petals on the Wind, Carrie, Wuthering Heights
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