Ask the Author: R. Frank Davis
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R. Frank Davis
Probably Roger Zelazny's Amber, as it is the "real" world that all others reflect in canted angle mirrors.
R. Frank Davis
Family history says both sides had unusual transitions through slavery. Would like to know more facts.
R. Frank Davis
Trump re-elected
R. Frank Davis
I was fascinated by the NFL's "Bountygate" scandal of a few years ago, in which certain members of the New Orleans Saints were accused of set paying a bounty to others who injured players of opposing teams so they would not be able to play on later games. Add that to my experience as a newspaper reporter and editor, and my protagonists came naturally from that.
R. Frank Davis
Never get it. If I can't write, I don't take it as a personal failure, just a confluence of events that hampered things for a little while.
Then again, I spent more than 45 years having to get written copy out, edited and published five days a week, so I could not allow writer's block to hold me up.
Then again, I spent more than 45 years having to get written copy out, edited and published five days a week, so I could not allow writer's block to hold me up.
R. Frank Davis
Getting one's personal view of some reality and putting it down. (Getting it published is second.)
R. Frank Davis
1. Read. Lots. Find favorite writers and read all their works if you can. Ask yourself, what makes this writing appeal to me?
2. Try to write something every day. Some keep journals; some have notebooks of ideas. You may even copy out segments of favorite writing to get the feel of how they were written. But never, never try to copy that writing. Let your own style come from you AND what you like.
3. Write as you speak.
2. Try to write something every day. Some keep journals; some have notebooks of ideas. You may even copy out segments of favorite writing to get the feel of how they were written. But never, never try to copy that writing. Let your own style come from you AND what you like.
3. Write as you speak.
R. Frank Davis
I have one book that may come out this year, an older-younger, interracial romance, and two books in the pipeline, one interracial with a business location and the other involves Egyptian myths and gods. I have a couple of ideas floating, but I find that if I discuss them, I won't write them.
R. Frank Davis
I have wanted to write as long as I can remember. As a child I would get the feeling of a pencil in my hand and not know what to write. My career was in news reporting and editing, but I found I would rather edit that report/write. Once I retired, the desire to write fiction rose again, and I started putting a few daydreams together with reality and research.
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