Ask the Author: D.B. Patterson
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D.B. Patterson
Family can be a great source of creative material.
D.B. Patterson
Creativity, Confidence, and Courage. Being creative long enough will likely lead you to a kind of confidence if you persist in one-upping yourself. That may or may not help you find your courage, which is the hardest of the three to achieve. Courage to be confident in creativity means being utterly, fearlessly honest as you express your particular vision of the world and all the pieces that make it.
D.B. Patterson
The best thing about being a writer is never calling myself a writer, or an artist, or novelist, or author. Sounds pretentious and gives me the heebie-jeebies to think of myself as a snobby little label. My creative life is so much more varied than that, I assure you.
D.B. Patterson
I usually don't experience writer's block. I usually experience the exact opposite, writer's vomit, which is where I take a simple idea and muddy it up with affected prose until the idea isn't recognizable. I catch most of these during my revision process, which is a considerably lengthy one because of all the writing vomit I spew during the creation stage.
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