Ask the Author: Christopher Sharp
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Christopher Sharp
Ironic question, my whole life could be a lot for a book. I will keep this as short as possible.
Years ago I got sick, couldn't drive or work or even watch my small children. When the symptoms finally subsided I was not the same person as before, the illness somehow changed me.
Fast forward ten years and I accepted the change, embraced my new abilities and spent the last decade not only trying to understand them but to make them stronger.
Now I have knowledge of a future that will come to pass and I am trying to figure out the best way to get there....
Years ago I got sick, couldn't drive or work or even watch my small children. When the symptoms finally subsided I was not the same person as before, the illness somehow changed me.
Fast forward ten years and I accepted the change, embraced my new abilities and spent the last decade not only trying to understand them but to make them stronger.
Now I have knowledge of a future that will come to pass and I am trying to figure out the best way to get there....
Christopher Sharp
Hi Aunt Mary
The beginning of the book is based on moving from NJ to Arizona. The metaphysical aspect of the book is fiction but everything else is fact.
XOXO
The beginning of the book is based on moving from NJ to Arizona. The metaphysical aspect of the book is fiction but everything else is fact.
XOXO
Christopher Sharp
It started out as a diary, I kept a close account of my experiences for six months or so. Then i took all of factual events and wrapped a story around them.
Christopher Sharp
"I've got an idea formin in my head" (Timebandits) That's how it starts, with just an idea. Then i chase it down the rabbit hole and see where I wind up. Not every idea becomes a book, only the ones that take me to a tea party.
Christopher Sharp
My next book is going to be the first of either a trilogy or a series, too soon to tell. The concept is post apocalyps but i'm putting a twist on how the end of days is supposed to come.
Christopher Sharp
I learned a few important things from people I've met and books that I've read.
1. Write something every day if you want to be a writer.(it doesn't matter if it's one word or ten pages)
2. Set a deadline for your work.(you don't actually have to finish the first draft on that day but once you go over it you know that you just passed the last gas station for a hundred miles and the needle is on E)
3. Learn to be patient. (If you don't your publisher will give you a crash course) I wrote a second manuscript while i was waiting for my first to be published. (100,000 words in the first draft)
4. The most important thing you can do is learn how to forget. Forget everything you know (or think you know in my case) and turn off your brain. The brain isn't where the story comes from, it's where you store the words to the song "On blue Bayou" (Dreamcatcher, Stephen King) It's the mind that produces the stories. Once you can learn to separate the two the sky's the limit.
1. Write something every day if you want to be a writer.(it doesn't matter if it's one word or ten pages)
2. Set a deadline for your work.(you don't actually have to finish the first draft on that day but once you go over it you know that you just passed the last gas station for a hundred miles and the needle is on E)
3. Learn to be patient. (If you don't your publisher will give you a crash course) I wrote a second manuscript while i was waiting for my first to be published. (100,000 words in the first draft)
4. The most important thing you can do is learn how to forget. Forget everything you know (or think you know in my case) and turn off your brain. The brain isn't where the story comes from, it's where you store the words to the song "On blue Bayou" (Dreamcatcher, Stephen King) It's the mind that produces the stories. Once you can learn to separate the two the sky's the limit.
Christopher Sharp
No matter how good or bad you are at it there is always someone out there that can relate to what you write.
Christopher Sharp
Writers block is simply your subconscious telling you , "It's time to put the pencil down." When you learn to listen to that small quiet voice in the back of your head you realize that it's not actually a block, its guidance from your higher self.
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