Ask the Author: R. Vincent Tibbetts
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R. Vincent Tibbetts
Its important to stay with what you are trying to accomplish for the day, or even the hour. there are plenty of times i have sat down with grandiose goals for writing and have gotten pinned down by a concept or even a sentence. I think at that point its important to scale down what you are trying to realize in the moment and just get it over the hump, completing it the best you can but don't beat yourself up to hard about it. Tomorrow is another day. Attack it with fresh eyes and thoughts. You chose the subject, it must be something you enjoy talking or thinking about, so keep at it.
R. Vincent Tibbetts
Dreaming of the day you actually get paid to do it.
R. Vincent Tibbetts
Learn to write in a stream of consciousness style and don't look back until you have gotten all of the ideas out of your head for what chapters and sections are laid out. Skip around, write your ending first if that is what you have worked out, but get in the habit of brain dumping out onto the page. Everything grows out this type of fertilizer, believe me.
R. Vincent Tibbetts
My third novel. The second is on the shelf waiting to be edited, and the first needs to be cleaned up in editing. It's my mess, but I will keep at it. I learned a lot in self-publishing my first book and don't want to repeat some of those mistakes. It doesn't stop me from writing that's for sure.
R. Vincent Tibbetts
Ideas are coming in from all sides all the time and places that are quite unexpected. We live in exciting times, not that everything we are doing as a species is always the right choice, and those poor decisions can spawn ideas as well. People have a greater freedom now than at any other time in history to examine and question the world around them. They are pushing that envelop, and at times are finding themselves right up against established thought. Communication, travel, and trade have brought us closer together as a global community and made us aware of problems we might have turned a cold shoulder to a few decades ago. I guess there is a part of me that wonders how this portion of our global development will end.
R. Vincent Tibbetts
This was a long held over idea from a comic book I helped write and publish back in 1999. The comic book may not have taken off the way I wanted but the story for this never died and rolled around in my head for years until it built up to a point where I felt comfortable writing about it.
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