Ask the Author: R.J. Goldman
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R.J. Goldman
Book two! “Nowhere” has a rich and full life in my head, but I’m currently working on getting it into a format that y’all can consume. I’m also patching a plot hole in my 2018 NaNo project and considering starting a graphic novel with an artist friend. That’s my secret, Cap: I’m always working.
R.J. Goldman
“Nothing” was inspired by a music video. When I saw the video for “Nada” by Cazzu, Rauw Alejandro, Lyanno, and Dalex, I knew I wanted to write the story behind it: in the video, each of the four singers has an elemental power. I’ve never tried writing sci-fi before, but I almost immediately “saw” the story in my head.
R.J. Goldman
When writer’s block hits, I like to go for a walk with my headphones in, blasting my favorite playlist. That way I can clear my head, not looking at a screen or worried about cleaning my house or anything.
R.J. Goldman
I used to do NaNoWriMo, and my favorite technique I learned from that was to... just write. “Draft zero” of the climax of “Nothing” was basically a stream-of-consciousness, thousand-word paragraph with minimal punctuation. It’s so much easier to edit that into something readable than it is to write from scratch! My favorite phrase is “better than zero” — if you just wrote one word today, that’s one more word than you had yesterday.
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