Ask the Author: Eddie Pittman
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Eddie Pittman
Video games, other novels, dreams, shower thoughts, but most of all "what if" questions.
Eddie Pittman
Ernest Hemingway: “The only kind of writing is rewriting.”
And something that helped me a lot: read. Mainly focus on your genre, what works for you? What doesn't? Why? Then write something that does the opposite!
And something that helped me a lot: read. Mainly focus on your genre, what works for you? What doesn't? Why? Then write something that does the opposite!
Eddie Pittman
Expressing yourself in several ways through multiple characters that you see yourself through. Also making people choose the right decision instead of horror movie plots where the main characters have the IQ of a fish.
Eddie Pittman
The Universe in the Wayfarers series by Becky Chambers.
Eddie Pittman
Probably how the heck I gained twenty pounds since graduation!
Eddie Pittman
Currently finishing up the Final Architecture series by Adrian Tchaikovsky, Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie, Redshift by R.M. Olson, and listening to Redshirts audiobook by John Scalzi.
Eddie Pittman
Two families walk into the home on Adams Street. Only one goes out.
Eddie Pittman
The advice I was given by my creative writing professor in college, and I live by it. "We're writers, this is our job. Like any job, there are days we don't want to work or just can't do it. But then there are days where we have to force ourselves."
I find that after going through a "forced" writing day or two, the block goes away pretty quickly. I also try and do different phases at different times. For me, editing is NOT my favorite by any means, but the first round of editing is my most fun because I am an underwriter. Indeed, the first draft of Missing Among the Stars was around 80K words, and after adding in some comments from beta readers and gamma readers, it ballooned to 110K words.
I find that after going through a "forced" writing day or two, the block goes away pretty quickly. I also try and do different phases at different times. For me, editing is NOT my favorite by any means, but the first round of editing is my most fun because I am an underwriter. Indeed, the first draft of Missing Among the Stars was around 80K words, and after adding in some comments from beta readers and gamma readers, it ballooned to 110K words.
Eddie Pittman
I am compulsively editing Missing Among the Stars for grammar issues. Small, little things that I am just like oh wow I can clean this up. But, otherwise, I am working on Book Two of the series (not sure I am ready to reveal the working title), and on a standalone novel called A Cure in Spacetime. Still workshopping that title because it does not roll off the tongue.
Eddie Pittman
I was inspired by the work of John Scalzi 's Old Man's War series and Mass Effect (the original trilogy)! It started when my partner introduced me to Mass Effect which then spurred me into reading a lot of science fiction. I have always had a joy for writing and science fiction, and after dipping my toe into reading it, I knew I had to write a story. Most space operas that are somewhat contemporary that I have read do not have queer primary characters, so I wanted to do that (there are of course many exceptions).
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