Ask the Author: Ralph Bland
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Ralph Bland
I have to be at my desk and type a certain quota of words every day. Whether I keep them or not doesn't matter, but I have to write six days a week or I'm grounded.
Ralph Bland
If somebody bugs me I can kill them off and not have to go to prison.
Ralph Bland
Read a lot, figure out what you want to convey in your work that's different from everybody else, and then be yourself when you write it.
Ralph Bland
I'm finishing up a short story, getting ready to work on a third draft for a novel (also concerning the grocery business), and taking notes and doing a lot of thinking about the book after that.
Ralph Bland
I wait until my brain drives me nuts thinking about a certain scenario and then I sit down and make myself write a block of words before I'm allowed to get up.
Ralph Bland
ANTICIPATION, due for release June 14, 2018, is an imagining coming from a cumulative 44 years in the grocery business. There is nothing crazier than a Southern snow scare in a grocery store.
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