Ask the Author: C.R. Richards
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C.R. Richards
I would head to the SHIRE from Lord of the Rings. It would be fun to hit the pub with the Hobbits. We share a love of comfort, music, stories, and food.
C.R. Richards
The best way to deal with writer's block is to mitigate before it happens. I go through stages in which I'll have a harvest of new ideas for stories and scenes. I capture them on my handy iPad and save them for a drought day. When that dry spell of ideas comes, I can look back through my ideas and jump start my creative brain. If that doesn't work, I ride out those drought days by spending time on the nuts and bolts work of writing: editing, marketing, research.
C.R. Richards
My winter will be focused on completing the second book - Beyond The Obsidian Gates - in the Heart of the Warrior series. I also have a paranormal ghost story in the works for 2016.
C.R. Richards
All my story ideas start with one pivotal scene I envision in an intense and vivid dream. The first seed of an idea for the Heart of the Warrior Series came to me when I dreamed of a boy from the 18th century. He was kneeling beside his mother's grave in a cemetery beside a high seaside cliff. A strange man joined him there. The scene made me wonder who the man was and his relation to the boy. They were strangers. I could tell from the man's dress, he was a foreigner.
I began to ask several "What if" questions to flesh out the story: What if the man was the boy's estranged father? What if his mother had hidden him in the remote village? WHY? Who are these people and what brought about the tragedy that bound them to one another? I wanted to find out and the only way to get to the truth was to write the book.
I began to ask several "What if" questions to flesh out the story: What if the man was the boy's estranged father? What if his mother had hidden him in the remote village? WHY? Who are these people and what brought about the tragedy that bound them to one another? I wanted to find out and the only way to get to the truth was to write the book.
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