Ask the Author: C.E. Self
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C.E. Self
I move on to something I know for sure. Sometimes it can be several chapters away from where I currently am, and sometimes I skip to the end of the book and write that. I knew exactly how I wanted my book to end. It was all in my head anyway, so when I got writers block I just skipped a bit and let it out. We'll guess what. I wrote that ending and read back over it when I was done. Then I read it again. Then I found out it wasn't really the end after all. I added an epilogue that I hadn't even realized I needed. After that, I went back to the sequential part of the story I had left behind and wrote the next four chapters before I had to stand back and take a look at it again.
C.E. Self
The fact that I can create anything. I can stick to the rules, or I can break them all. If I have a vision, I just have to find a way to communicate it to my readers. I like to communicate things to my readers in dialogue as much as possible. After all, the stories are about the characters and their interactions. Why not let them tell the story for me?
C.E. Self
Write what you love. Love what you write. If you can read your own work and smile, or get chills, or cry and that was your intention for your reader, then job we'll done.
Find your style. Do you like to be super descriptive of every little thing in your story? Then do it. Just be sure to recognize when enough is enough and too much is too much. I personally find myself at the other extreme. I like to give only the barest of details so my readers can use their own imaginations to fill in any details they think is required. Some are going to like it. Some are going to hate it. That's just fine because I wrote the story I intended.
Find your style. Do you like to be super descriptive of every little thing in your story? Then do it. Just be sure to recognize when enough is enough and too much is too much. I personally find myself at the other extreme. I like to give only the barest of details so my readers can use their own imaginations to fill in any details they think is required. Some are going to like it. Some are going to hate it. That's just fine because I wrote the story I intended.
C.E. Self
I am currently working on book two of the planned four book series. As with book one, the entire script of dialogue was completed when the project was designed to be a manga style comic book. I changed the direction of the project and am now in the process of turning script into novel.
C.E. Self
Once the idea takes hold in my head, I have to write it down just to get some mental relief. I have an entire list of future projects written down in a file on my computer. Any time an idea occurs to me I add it too the list. I put most of those off until I complete the project I'm working on.
As for the current project, if I get stuck in a chapter and can't seem to write more I just move to a later part of the book and write about a part I know. In my current planned four book series, with only the first book published, I have already written the entire ending and the majority of the overall series climax that will be in the fourth book.
As for the current project, if I get stuck in a chapter and can't seem to write more I just move to a later part of the book and write about a part I know. In my current planned four book series, with only the first book published, I have already written the entire ending and the majority of the overall series climax that will be in the fourth book.
C.E. Self
The very first thoughts about it came while I was watching a How to Draw Manga video on YouTube made by author and artist Mark Crilley. I can't point to the exact moment the idea occurred to me. I remember wondering what kind of story I would write if I were to attempt to write and draw a manga. As you might expect, the idea continued to develop in my head for several weeks before I ever wrote down the first word.
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