Ask the Author: Benjamin Fortier
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Benjamin Fortier
Thank you for asking - I recommend you head to the publisher (DRC) and purchase directly through them. When you have the opportunity, leave a review on Amazon. That will check all the boxes!
Benjamin Fortier
Ideas for stories constantly spring into my imagination, but sitting down and writing them doesn't always happen.
Writing can be a challenge some days. Other days the urge to write is equivalent to the urge of scratching an itch. I'm inspired by many, many things, such as other mediums like illustration, painting, or movies. I also find myself inspired by conversations - with strangers or loved ones.
Much like maintaining a fitness routine, you have to challenge yourself to write, whether you're inspired or not.
Writing can be a challenge some days. Other days the urge to write is equivalent to the urge of scratching an itch. I'm inspired by many, many things, such as other mediums like illustration, painting, or movies. I also find myself inspired by conversations - with strangers or loved ones.
Much like maintaining a fitness routine, you have to challenge yourself to write, whether you're inspired or not.
Benjamin Fortier
My imagination can be a place of great power, wisdom, and bliss. It can also be a place of great suffering, fear, and pain. These extremes cannot exist without one another, and writing allows me to find a place for them to live in harmony. Poetry in particular allows me to find balance while confronting my greatest fears and pleasures from the physical world. Fiction allows me to re-tell stories and create characters that I would love (or hate) to be, meet, or be related to.
The best thing about being a writer is that you're only limited to the depths of your imagination, and I can't say I've ever met anyone that didn't have a vast imagination.
The best thing about being a writer is that you're only limited to the depths of your imagination, and I can't say I've ever met anyone that didn't have a vast imagination.
Benjamin Fortier
Sometimes you're just going to hit a phase where either 1) Your mind is empty in terms of where to take the project or 2) Every time you write something it comes out like crap. Both are symptoms of writer's block.
A level of acceptance and resistance is necessary. Sometimes you have to shift gears - if you're stuck on prose, try some free verse poetry. Skip to another part of the story that you feel you've fleshed out more in your mind and come back later to the spot you were stuck on.
A software program like "Scrivener" is very helpful if you're a bit scatter brained or want to go from A to D to C to F and then to B. The thing about getting stuck is that you need to get unstuck.
A level of acceptance and resistance is necessary. Sometimes you have to shift gears - if you're stuck on prose, try some free verse poetry. Skip to another part of the story that you feel you've fleshed out more in your mind and come back later to the spot you were stuck on.
A software program like "Scrivener" is very helpful if you're a bit scatter brained or want to go from A to D to C to F and then to B. The thing about getting stuck is that you need to get unstuck.
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