Ask the Author: Ned Tillman
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Ned Tillman
Go for a long walk. Or a short walk. Or just get outside. Nature engages me and inspires all sorts of thoughts.
Ned Tillman
Capturing an idea with a well crafted sentence. Stirring an emotion with an apt description of a human response. Moving a reader to action with a well played plot.
Ned Tillman
Find a passion and pursue it.
Ned Tillman
The flooding of old Ellicott City inspired me to write The Big Melt. This historic town has been hit by two 1000 year floods in two years. I am now on a book tour trying to spread the word on what we all need to be doing to prevent more of these climate disasters. The Big Melt engages readers and inspires people to take action.
Ned Tillman
By walking in the woods and thinking about the future. Everything has to come together before I am inspired to invest the time and emotion into writing a new book. That has only happened to me three times. I am awaiting the next confluence of ideas, characters and an important plot.
Ned Tillman
My readers of my first two books asked me to write a story that would engage, inform and inspire others to get more involved in slowing down our changing climate. I did it in a novel format to make it entertaining as the characters struggle to figure out what they can do to save their town. The main character was modeled after a chance meeting with a young man at a camp in Maine. The story grew from there.
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