Ask the Author: E.C. Grube
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E.C. Grube
GO for it! Lookup a ton of advice and even if you aren't a planner, at least make an outline before fully drafting. Work *with* your creativity and push to write even when you don't want to. Research everything you write about by at least googling it or having personal experience. Nothing alienates readers more than something being obviously wrong.
E.C. Grube
Her tongue stuck to the roof of her dry mouth and she shook involuntarily as she tried desperately to listen past her pounding heartbeat. Curled into a tighter ball in the shadows, she tried to muffle the whimpers that wanted to escape as the floorboards creaked and the footsteps came closer.
E.C. Grube
That's tough. For me, I'd jump into my favorite series, Overlord by Kugane Maruyama and I'd support Ainz-sama by hopefully being the one person he can be himself around and complain to. I'd be Eminence Gris as his closest confidant. Hopefully, I'd have awesome powers, too.
E.C. Grube
Right now, my upcoming list is Spider's Ill Wind by Rachel Caine, Bite by Jennifer Estep, Soulless by Gail Carriger, Angel's Blood by Nalini Singh, and more.
E.C. Grube
There are mysteries and questions everywhere:
What is the world like from the point of view of my shoes?
If my grandmother were a spirit watching me, what would she say?
Who were my ancestors and how did they live?
How did my greatest enemy become the way they are?
What do my cats think of me and their lives?
What if I had taken a different path?
How did I find the strength to survive?
What is the world like from the point of view of my shoes?
If my grandmother were a spirit watching me, what would she say?
Who were my ancestors and how did they live?
How did my greatest enemy become the way they are?
What do my cats think of me and their lives?
What if I had taken a different path?
How did I find the strength to survive?
E.C. Grube
Don't wait for inspiration. Go out there and grab it. Watch a show and put yourself in the position of a non-lead character. Re-write a story you already know in a totally different way. Ask yourself what it would be like to be X person in Y situation or remember yourself as a child and wonder how you would handle a situation you are in today. Zero draft it and see if you're interested in the story.
E.C. Grube
Creating an entirely new universe in the palm of your hands.
It is the best and the worst because to create something from nothing is very difficult, but others have come before you and you can look to them for inspiration and advice.
It is the best and the worst because to create something from nothing is very difficult, but others have come before you and you can look to them for inspiration and advice.
E.C. Grube
Navigator of Minds (Navigator series #2) and a crime comedy called Red Dragon Conspiracy which may be a short story or a full book later.
E.C. Grube
SO SO many things inspire me. Music, art, documentaries, culture, other stories. I have entire playlists of music for character development. I came up with the arch-nemesis of the Navigator series by watching a documentary. My friends and family have inspired several characters. An enemy was made into a character that has a bad fate. Even finances have inspired me- I want to make a book series based on 3 warring tribes who developed 3 different seed technologies. I have a book idea based upon the news and 2020 mixed with the history of the crusades.
E.C. Grube
It came from a song. I have a longer answer to this on my blog, but the short answer is Sweet Dreams by the Eurythmics made me wonder what it would genuinely be like to grow up as a dreamwalker, exposed to the minds of humanity and how it would be both wondrous and terrifying. From there, Lisette was born. Originally, the book title was Sweet Dreams- thank goodness I changed that. :)
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