Ask the Author: Nick Feldman
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Nick Feldman
Sarah could only dance when nobody was watching. Sarah would never dance again.
Nick Feldman
Short answer: Twitter.
Longer but still pretty short answer: a comment on Twitter about a review I wrote gave me an idea for a character who'd been absolutely stumping me to the point that I kept pushing her back book after book (she was originally supposed to be in "Hungover and Handcuffed"), and she just kinda hijacked the book and pushed all the police corruption stuff I'd been planning to do back to the fourth book.
Longer but still pretty short answer: a comment on Twitter about a review I wrote gave me an idea for a character who'd been absolutely stumping me to the point that I kept pushing her back book after book (she was originally supposed to be in "Hungover and Handcuffed"), and she just kinda hijacked the book and pushed all the police corruption stuff I'd been planning to do back to the fourth book.
Nick Feldman
Heartbreak's the best, but it's hard to bottle.
Failing that, it can be anything. "Asshole Yakuza Boyfriend" came mostly from really liking "Drunken Angle" and wanting to try and do a modernized version of the Toshiro Mifune character from that story in a less contained setting. "Hungover and Handcuffed" started as an attempt to break writer's block by pitting two characters I wasn't using in a duel to the death, but it ended up launching my most successful franchise.
Poverty's a pretty strong muse, too.
Failing that, it can be anything. "Asshole Yakuza Boyfriend" came mostly from really liking "Drunken Angle" and wanting to try and do a modernized version of the Toshiro Mifune character from that story in a less contained setting. "Hungover and Handcuffed" started as an attempt to break writer's block by pitting two characters I wasn't using in a duel to the death, but it ended up launching my most successful franchise.
Poverty's a pretty strong muse, too.
Nick Feldman
Read a lot, write a lot. Those aren't the only two things that matter, but they matter enough to make up for any of the other ones you're missing.
Writing classes are fine- if hit-and-miss- but you'll learn more reading Durrell or Chandler than you will workshopping with other people who are stuck on the same stuff you are.
Writing classes are fine- if hit-and-miss- but you'll learn more reading Durrell or Chandler than you will workshopping with other people who are stuck on the same stuff you are.
Nick Feldman
Mina Davis 3: Gutterpunk Nightingale
Nick Feldman
The hours.
Jokes aside, there's a lot to be said for being your own boss. It's terrifying and an incredible amount of pressure, but it's also pretty cool.
Jokes aside, there's a lot to be said for being your own boss. It's terrifying and an incredible amount of pressure, but it's also pretty cool.
Nick Feldman
There are a lot of options, none of them always work. The one I've had the most luck with is whiskey, but when that doesn't do the job I've tried things that range from writing in a different city to wasting several months of my life doing stand-up comedy.
Really, anything that shakes up your current status quo could do the job; the worst thing you can do is get caught in the same routine that isn't working.
Really, anything that shakes up your current status quo could do the job; the worst thing you can do is get caught in the same routine that isn't working.
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