Ask the Author: Topher Burk
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Topher Burk
By writing. Even bad words increase your draft word count and move you to the end of your draft. By the time you get to the edit and rewrite, you won't have writer's block.
Topher Burk
The intense, crushing loneliness and alcoholism.
Topher Burk
Write. Ignore rejections. Write more. Ignore more rejections. Self-publish. Ignore reviews. Write more. Write more.
Topher Burk
A humorous military sci-fi novel. After that, a fantasy trilogy.
Topher Burk
There is no inspiration. There is just writing, editing, then rewriting. If you're not putting one word after another, you want to be a writer, you aren't actually writing.
Topher Burk
I tried to think of the most reluctant, unlikely protagonist I could, and then put him in the worst situation he could ever be in. Then I started writing "Caracal 7."
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