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Lloyd Jeffries
I remind myself I have infinite options. Then, I narrow down. This can take days or weeks, a blinding, helpless insanity, waiting for inspiration, for the proper word, that radiant turn of phrase. "Alas, dear Emery, patience yields all things."
Lloyd Jeffries
The exam table is cold, the physicians detached, thinking of money. A glimmering scalpel rises.
Lloyd Jeffries
No question about it. Middle Earth. As a Ranger. Wait, changed my mind, the bridge of the USS Enterprise in any Star Trek novel. That's the one for sure. But wait: What about Coruscant in the Star Wars universe? I'd be great on the Jedi council, I'm certain of it. So that's the one! Wait a sec, I am rather tired of being a muggle. Maybe Hogwarts. Yes, Hogwarts, I think. What was the question again?
Lloyd Jeffries
I've been revisiting the classics: Doyle's Complete Works of Sherlock Holmes, Dicken's A Tale of Two Cities, Mailer's Tough Guys Don't Dance, Huxley's Brave New World, King's The Stand. I'm even taking trips through my Shakespeare, Cummings, Gibran and Al-Tabari.
Lloyd Jeffries
If God knows everything, then what's the point of existence? This is the theme explored in my Ages of Malice series. Since no one could give me an answer, I came up with one myself. And let me say, it's a mind-shredder.
Lloyd Jeffries
The idea for A Portion of Malice hit me like a thunder bolt as I was driving across the Bogan bridge in Pensacola, Florida. It's stuck with me for over a decade, something palpable, something with barbs that latched. I had no choice but to pen this tale.
Lloyd Jeffries
I ruminate over the very first sentence of any scene. Once that comes, the rest just flows. I've deleted entire chapters because they didn't feel right. But when they do, oh boy!
Lloyd Jeffries
I'm currently working on Ages of Malice, book IV, working title: The Tempests of Time. This comes after Book I, A Portion of Malice, Book II, A Measure of Rhyme, and Book III, Embers of Shadow. I love this world, these characters, this plot, and have things happen while writing that surprise even me.
Lloyd Jeffries
The best thing about being a writer is the reader's reaction. I love nothing more than thinking about the emotions my words inspired, of perspectives changed, of thoughts provoked.
Lloyd Jeffries
1. Learn the craft!
2. The two S's of writing: Self-validate and self-soothe.
3. Keep your own counsel. Make the story resonate for yourself. Challenge yourself, thrill yourself, believe in yourself.
4. Then bend genres.
5. Omit needless words (a classic that can't be overstated).
2. The two S's of writing: Self-validate and self-soothe.
3. Keep your own counsel. Make the story resonate for yourself. Challenge yourself, thrill yourself, believe in yourself.
4. Then bend genres.
5. Omit needless words (a classic that can't be overstated).
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