Ask the Author: S.K. Waller
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S.K. Waller
This is easy. I'd go to the world I created in my books.
S.K. Waller
This summer I've been reading Mary Beard's Pompeii. It seems to be a rereading season, however. I've reread Marion Zimmer Bradley's The Mists of Avalon and Keith Richards' Life. My list this year has been small due to my wife's second bout of metastatic breast cancer.
S.K. Waller
I don't. If I can't write I do something else. I garden, I cook, I watch a movie. I just live my life. Creativity never goes away. It's an ebb and flow and when I can't write I accept that as part of the natural rhythm. There's more to being a writer than the putting down of words. It's about living life awake rather than sleepwalking through it. It's about having experiences, of being mindful, meeting people and learning about oneself. Writing it down is just the mechanics of the writing life.
S.K. Waller
For me, it's the growing capacity to better express myself and to dive deep into my subconscious. Having said that, I suppose the best thing about being a writer is the ongoing study, understanding and acceptance of myself.
S.K. Waller
Turn off all the voices and just write. The internet is full of free advice from people who mean well, but in the end it's only your own voice that you must heed. Forget those endless lists of rules. Buy and use the Elements of Style, exploit your language to the fullest and just write.
S.K. Waller
I'm currently working on Books 3 and 4 of Beyond The Bridge, as well as my memoirs, A Polite Little Madness.
S.K. Waller
I'm definitely an inspiration writer. I've tried treating writing as a craft or a business, but it left me cold. I might not write every day, but when I do write it's often for days on end. I don't know what inspires me. Something--some fleeting emotion or something someone says--will prompt me, but usually, it's writing itself that does this. For me, writing is a supply-and-demand proposition.
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