Ask the Author: Glenn H. Mitchell
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Glenn H. Mitchell
Absolutely. I find the concept alien. I reckon I'll need three or four lifetimes to get through the list of ideas I have for stories. If I have a bad day, I just lean forward and keep dragging the plough through muck. Maybe part of the reason I never suffer from writers block is that I do a lot of daydreaming and developing scenes in my head. To the observer, it may look like OCD when I repeatedly open and close doors or walk in small circles, but it's actually because I'm in the middle of an imagined conversation between characters. By the time I sit down and start writing I'm normally racing to empty the contents of my skull. I never look at a blank page and sigh, that's for sure.
Glenn H. Mitchell
Writers hate it when I say this, but I really don't believe in writer's block. If you can't write because you don't feel like it, that's not a great sign. If you've run out of ideas, that's also a worrying sign. Either way, I don't like it when people present it as some sort of affliction. It's not. My advice to people who think they're suffering from writer's block is to suck it up, and keep typing. More often than not, without realising, you'll click into 'the zone' and forget that there was a hurdle.
Glenn H. Mitchell
I wrote a short story about a lonely young man who acquires a mannequin and dresses it up to resemble a girl he loves. The relationship becomes increasingly, and worryingly, realistic. His doting and abusive behaviour (depending on his mood) becomes so intense that he forgets the object is inanimate, and in turn, so does the mannequin.
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