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C.L. Roman Anything Octavia Butler. I love her work!
C.L. Roman That really depends on what their goals are for their writing. If you want to write as a career, I'll have different advice than if you just want to write as a hobby. I guess for all of us though, the best advice is to finish what you start. Doesn't matter how long it takes, but there is huge satisfaction in writing "The End," and knowing that you've completed a piece of art.
C.L. Roman Creating characters and letting them talk to me. Its like having a whole troop of imaginary friends who are always present exactly when you want them to be. Of course, sometimes they show out, but hey, don't we all?
C.L. Roman I basically just keep writing. Even if it is trash, it gets me started. But to be honest, I haven't really had to deal with being totally blocked. Some days writing is harder than others, but so far it's always been accessible, eventually.
C.L. Roman Do I have to pick just one? Yikes. I tend to prefer worlds where magic is possible. I enjoyed Scott Eder's world creation and Neil Gaiman is, of course, a favorite. Charles Cornell does some awesome world building in Dragonfly. It doesn't seem to matter whether they are alternative Earth places or someplace completely other, but I really want there to be magic, because, of course, then I would get to play with it.
C.L. Roman Right now I'm working on finishing the third book in the Rephaim series, Illusion. Its getting close to finished and I'm hoping to launch in September.
C.L. Roman My day job is teaching and, like most teachers, I have often wished for magical powers in the classroom. Then I started thinking about what that would really be like and, voila! First Candidate was born.

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