Ask the Author: Jay Smith
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Jay Smith
Live a life. Explore. Fail. Struggle and fail again. Know what it is like the be hurt and hate and feel all the negative things people tell you to avoid. Make a mistake and hit a wall. Then use that pain in your fiction. Your pain and conflict are the core of drama.
Jay Smith
A mild, yet effective laxative and a reminder that writing is just like any job and there is a work product involved. If I can't sit for 8 hours at my day job and produce nothing, I sure as hell cannot waste a day pondering the depths of my belly button pretending the muses have abandoned me. If the story isn't working, there's research to do. If not that, there's plotting, re-reading, new reading, and other related tasks to perform.
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