Ask the Author: Jim Cooper
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Jim Cooper
Unknown - I have so many on my un-read shelf that I pick whatever hits me when I'm ready for a new one.
Jim Cooper
Wow. This is a tough choice. Romantically, Matthew Scudder and Elaine Mardell in Lawrence Block's Scudder series. I love the way Block unites these two broken people into a solid, intimate couple. I'd like to hang with them.
Platonically, Joe Lansdale's Hap and Leonard. How much craziness can two people handle and still be joined at the soul?
Platonically, Joe Lansdale's Hap and Leonard. How much craziness can two people handle and still be joined at the soul?
Jim Cooper
By creating characters I wanted to know more about and then throwing them together to see what happened. I knew I wanted to write in the mystery genre, after that it was just letting the characters breathe life (or death) into the story.
Jim Cooper
By paying attention to life and listening to the quiet inner voice that prods me with: "Write that down. You'll use it"
Sometimes writing is self-inspiring. The characters grow and develop, taking the author into wild, unanticipated areas. That's very exciting.
Sometimes writing is self-inspiring. The characters grow and develop, taking the author into wild, unanticipated areas. That's very exciting.
Jim Cooper
Trying something different - working on a non-fiction book. It's challenging, but that's a good thing.
Jim Cooper
Write. Every day for at least an hour.
Jim Cooper
Writing. Every so often the muse is in full force and that joyous feeling sweeps over you when you realize the sentence (or paragraph or whatever) you just wrote is stellar.
Jim Cooper
Just write anything - even if it's words that do not necessarily go together. My experience is that writer's block comes from over-thinking. Just write - even if it has nothing to do with your current project, it will lessen the creative juices up a bit.
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