Ask the Author: Jay Sandlin
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Jay Sandlin
Timothy Zahn's "THRAWN". The blue man is back in the canon, so anything can happen!
Jay Sandlin
I would say I write the same way I watch Netflix. I binge on writing for several days or weeks and then walk away and experience life without writing or creating. This helps me gain a fresh perspective and distance from the story improves my objectivity regarding its quality. Elements that seemed strong at first grow stale after the manuscript has time to breathe.
Jay Sandlin
More additions to The Novel Comics universe! I have years of stories ready to be published.
Jay Sandlin
I don’t consider it writer’s block. If I reach a point where I can’t write anymore then it just means I have to walk away from my manuscript until I am in the right frame of mind to continue. An author does not create a story; the story is simply conveyed through his or her fingers. If you find that it’s not flowing, leave it and come back later.
Jay Sandlin
Writing is an evolutionary process. Your finished product will only vaguely resemble what you began with. Patience is the most important trait you can develop and it was so difficult for me to learn.
Jay Sandlin
When I was in the second grade we were assigned to write stories about halloween. Every other kid wrote a paragraph or two about trick or treating or candy.
I wrote a two and a half page treatment about being teleported to a haunted graveyard and transformed into a bloodthirsty creature of the night by a cult of ghouls.
I always knew I was different.
While others were playing kickball or some other form of sports, I was hiding under the playground equipment reading Shadows of the Empire or another Scifi novel. I began printing my own books before I was ten.(see photo) I would have benefitted from spellcheck then.
Then I stopped writing for years. I never produced a single word in high school, college, or into my adult life. I fell into a monotony of trying to be “normal”. I wanted to be succesful in business and started my own insurance and financial services company when I was 24.
I have been successful but still felt the undeniable pull towards writing. I ignored the message from The Outsiders and did not “stay gold”. In June of 2016, I read a book on vacation about superheroes in the common world and decided I could mix my passion of history with the idea of superheroes being inserted into world events.
I began to write on the way back from that very trip and came up with the basic idea of Atlas, Okinawa Dragon, and the Reich facing off at Pearl Harbor.
I wrote a two and a half page treatment about being teleported to a haunted graveyard and transformed into a bloodthirsty creature of the night by a cult of ghouls.
I always knew I was different.
While others were playing kickball or some other form of sports, I was hiding under the playground equipment reading Shadows of the Empire or another Scifi novel. I began printing my own books before I was ten.(see photo) I would have benefitted from spellcheck then.
Then I stopped writing for years. I never produced a single word in high school, college, or into my adult life. I fell into a monotony of trying to be “normal”. I wanted to be succesful in business and started my own insurance and financial services company when I was 24.
I have been successful but still felt the undeniable pull towards writing. I ignored the message from The Outsiders and did not “stay gold”. In June of 2016, I read a book on vacation about superheroes in the common world and decided I could mix my passion of history with the idea of superheroes being inserted into world events.
I began to write on the way back from that very trip and came up with the basic idea of Atlas, Okinawa Dragon, and the Reich facing off at Pearl Harbor.
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