Ask the Author: K. Edwin Fritz
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K. Edwin Fritz
Hi Roxie,
I can't believe you sent this 2 years ago and I'm just seeing it now. Short Answer: I've had a hell of a chaotic few years, personally, but "Battle of the Sexes" is in the works. I have several (ok... *many*) pages of notes and plans, and even a rudimentary 1st draft already completed. Barring any further life bombs, I'll be getting back to work on it this summer.
Thanks for the interest (and the patience).
I can't believe you sent this 2 years ago and I'm just seeing it now. Short Answer: I've had a hell of a chaotic few years, personally, but "Battle of the Sexes" is in the works. I have several (ok... *many*) pages of notes and plans, and even a rudimentary 1st draft already completed. Barring any further life bombs, I'll be getting back to work on it this summer.
Thanks for the interest (and the patience).
K. Edwin Fritz
Thanks for asking and For enjoying the first book. That’s very strange. It should be available. Maybe it’s an app issue? Try this link...
Woman Scorned (Man Hunt Book 2) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00JQN7II4/...
Woman Scorned (Man Hunt Book 2) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00JQN7II4/...
K. Edwin Fritz
Henry & Claire from Audrey Nifenegger's "The Time Traveler's Wife".
Talk about star-crossed lovers... they're not even the same AGE most of that story. Yet their love is real & almost always manages to surface. And that ending! Wow! (Forget the movie... they butchered the ending in the movie. Book version is far superior).
Talk about star-crossed lovers... they're not even the same AGE most of that story. Yet their love is real & almost always manages to surface. And that ending! Wow! (Forget the movie... they butchered the ending in the movie. Book version is far superior).
K. Edwin Fritz
When fans write kind & thought-out reviews. It really does boost my self-esteem & energizes me to write even more.
K. Edwin Fritz
By reading other great stories & wanting to emulate them.
Also, by reading bad stories & wanting to out-do them. :D
Also, by reading bad stories & wanting to out-do them. :D
K. Edwin Fritz
Mostly from observing life & keeping an open/ curious mind.
Example: My newest novella, "Afterlife" popped into my head after reading 5 or 6 other stories + a couple movies that all happened to touch on the subject. Somewhere along the way I got to thinking... "So, what's the absolute *worst* version of the afterlife you can come up with? And then how do I make that a happy ending?"
Other ideas seem to come out of nowhere... My short story "Interstate Baby" hatched when I was driving on a highway late at night & a raccoon waddled out in front of me. I was so tired & the patches of white on the animal made it look for a split second like a baby. All of a sudden... boom. Story idea. (Of course, the baby in that story has *nothing* to do with raccoons. Why I turned it into a vampire... I honestly have no idea).
Thanks for the question!
Example: My newest novella, "Afterlife" popped into my head after reading 5 or 6 other stories + a couple movies that all happened to touch on the subject. Somewhere along the way I got to thinking... "So, what's the absolute *worst* version of the afterlife you can come up with? And then how do I make that a happy ending?"
Other ideas seem to come out of nowhere... My short story "Interstate Baby" hatched when I was driving on a highway late at night & a raccoon waddled out in front of me. I was so tired & the patches of white on the animal made it look for a split second like a baby. All of a sudden... boom. Story idea. (Of course, the baby in that story has *nothing* to do with raccoons. Why I turned it into a vampire... I honestly have no idea).
Thanks for the question!
K. Edwin Fritz
To me the term 'writer's block' really means "My creativity is gone". And nobody on the planet is as creative as children. Why? I think it's because they do not fear rejection. To that end, one way to push through (not 'get over, btw... you can't avoid it, you *must* work through it) writer's block is to trick yourself into being creative once again. It's something we all used to do naturally as children. The best way... find a book or a website or a phone app with random prompts, then force yourself to write about those prompts for 10 or 15 minutes. Doesn't matter how good (or bad) the results are. You won't be sharing them with anyone anyway... and thus you'll have no fear. Just keep going. By the time you get to a dozen answered prompts, your creativity will have gotten a boost & your writer's block will have loosened up a bit. And if you try your own work again & it's still not gone, go back and write more silly prompts. Eventually, you'll find that balance between creativity & precision you need.
K. Edwin Fritz
1) Read a lot.
2) Write a lot.
3) Don't worry about making a story perfect. Instead, worry about finishing lots of stories.
4) Repeat #s 1 through 3.
2) Write a lot.
3) Don't worry about making a story perfect. Instead, worry about finishing lots of stories.
4) Repeat #s 1 through 3.
K. Edwin Fritz
It all started with a nightmare in 1995... I was running barefoot in the middle of the night, chased by a car... driven by angry women. The story, of course, is more complicated than that, but that truly was the inspiration point.
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