Ask the Author: Alec Cizak
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Alec Cizak
Any dystopian landscape. It would have to be better than reality in 2021.
Alec Cizak
Summer is over.
Alec Cizak
The search for my biological mother.
Alec Cizak
A two-party system has one logical destination: One party.
And what's a one-party system called again?...
And what's a one-party system called again?...
Alec Cizak
If you're having writer's block, at some point, you just need to tell yourself to sit down and write and worry about fixing the mess you're making when you revise. I guess I have an old football coach in my mind who calls me worthless and weak if I fail to get in my 2000 words a day.
Alec Cizak
This is a strange question. A supervisor once told me, many years ago, "Earn your money first, then you can write." I told him, "Writing comes before breathing." There is no need for inspiration. If you don't feel as though you exist solely to write, you probably shouldn't be writing in the first place.
Alec Cizak
I am finishing up a dystopian novella. I am also in the process of plotting the third book in the unofficial trilogy that started with DOWN ON THE STREET and BREAKING GLASS.
Alec Cizak
Get training in a job you don't have to take home with you. Many writers, including myself, have to teach to pay the bills. This is not really an ideal job for writers. When I was younger, I drove a delivery truck. The job wore me out physically, but I still had the mental energy to write two hours a night when I got home.
Alec Cizak
To me, the best thing about being a writer is the ability to deal with problems in a way I'd prefer, as opposed to the way civilized society allows me to. Fiction is a place where our natural instincts are still allowed to breathe.
Alec Cizak
Chelsea Farmer, the protagonist in BREAKING GLASS, was a character in my previous book, DOWN ON THE STREET. Because she was only observed through the eyes of the POV character in that book, a much older man, I decided I wanted to know more about Chelsea, and from her POV. It presented the challenge of writing an entire novel from a woman's POV. Pretty risky, in the age of "identity politics." Then again, if there is no risk, what's the point?
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