Ask the Author: W.C. Quick
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From the work of Anne McCaffrey, most notably All The Weyrs of Pern and the stories of Brian Jacques, Redwall
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I glean many of my ideas from other writers, past and present. I believe that Stephen King mentioned that if you intend to be a writer, you will need to read a lot.
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My Half-a-Rat series, dystopian science fiction stories with enhanced animals aided by an AI
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Write every day. It is that "little by little" concept of bridge building.
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I love the process. I enjoy completing a story. I enjoy any review, even the critical.
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I write, I write about anything and then I read what I wrote and go back to my WIPs and read. Sometimes I am inspired to move forward. Sometimes I delete 10 pages.
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I dreamt of a the perfect ending for my WIP. Forgot it all when I heard the alarm rattling.
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Pern, on a non-fall day, impress a few fire lizards and hang out on a warm sandy beach
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I read the short story, Murder in Black by N.C. Stow
Dreamtime Damsels and Fatal Femmes, short story anthology of fantasy tales with strong female characters
I re read Olympos by Dam Simmons, book 2 in the Ilium series
Dreamtime Damsels and Fatal Femmes, short story anthology of fantasy tales with strong female characters
I re read Olympos by Dam Simmons, book 2 in the Ilium series
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The simple answer is Ray Bradbury. I read the The Illustrated Man in Jr High. Later on The Martian Chronicles series. I enjoyed his short story collection concept of differing tales all revolving a central theme.
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Most of my stories have some mention of metal (iron) work, for weapons or wards. And the bright puddle of molten metal pushed along when welding is much like the glow of The Orb.
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I would have said A Wrinkle in Time as a kid. That held sway over Bradbury's Illustrated Man and Martian Chronicles. I grew up and shunned Fiction. Then Dan Simmons Hyperion came along. It was a remarkable jolt to the senses and imagination.
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It is usually morning to mid day when I have the energy to write, at least write well. And yes the stories can keep me awake.
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Years ago I wrote a poem titled Dissatisfied Being. About a self aware, super massive singularity from the Big Bang... the beginning, tired of the confinement, a senseless reality. And I am a old guy that remembers the Desertron, that now defunct Texas Particle Accelerator project. I fantasized of a collision event that yields the Quantum realities of the Orb. It immediately converts all human thought and stories to realities. I have toned it down a bit since then. You can access the alternate worlds by diving into the Orb Pool, glowing Cherenkov blue. And then I introduced the Fae to the Orb: Witches, Fairies, Elementals, Elves, some Vampires and Cats.
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I have but it is too much work to make the blades, hammered out to shape or poured and then heat treated. I found a site the sells the blade blanks for all types of swords some years back when I made theatrical swords for a production of R&J in Ojai, CA. I made the hilts and hand guards, under the artistic eye of a stage armorer. It is fussy stuff.
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I have a soft spot for Brick, from my yet to be released story, That Cinderella Ride. He is a half Elemental of Earth-ore and metal. But my favorite working character is Thomas. He is a kid in one tale and a Detective in a dysfunctional alternate reality in another tale... a wounded veteran in another and the incarnation of Death. All because he married into the wrong family.
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Yes, most of my stories have some mention of steel art or welding. The iron in steel is harmful to Fae beings. Blood, Bone and a Witches Kiss, (That Cinderella Ride, Novelette Yet to be released), Hall of Light, the evil family in The Flash And The Thunder are metal workers.
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The character of Del Prather in several of my stories, forms steel tree sculptures (Blood Bone and a Witches Kiiss) to murder young, unguarded Fae in the Human realm.... And my new hero, half elemental being, Brick from the up coming, That Cinderella Ride, is a welder /metal fabricator for his day job.
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I used a barbed tree sculpture I made for a glass table base on the cover of Blood, Bone and a Witches Kiss. The sculpture is long gone. I have metal bookends and tree sculptures that I have yet to utilize for cover art. I wish that I would have kept more of the pictures.
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Some of it is cat lore, the link to the afterlife but mostly it is attitude. Every cat I have ever had or housed seemed aloof to the struggle of life, more observers and perhaps manipulators of reality at some quantum level. It is fantasy after all. Add Witches and the Fae for spirit guides and you have mischief.
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