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I was born in Los Angeles, California seventy-three years ago. And I grew up near Redondo Beach that looks out on the Santa Monica Bay. It's where I got my mostly sunny optimistic outlook. I always wanted to be a writer. After graduating from UCLA, I moved to New York to become a journalist writer, but it didn't work out. Time passed (as it does) and there were little things I'd written but I had no idea of anything to write about that might make a good book. Then a friend of mine gave me a sunny mostly optimistic rom-com Hindi film to watch called "Salaam Namaste." And I found India. It's been there almost 5,000 years but it takes me about sixty-one years to find it. Better late than never! Now I have something to write about. ...more

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Larry Bone I finally realize that I don't need to know anything about my book before I start writing it or what happens next after I start writing it. Lee Child …moreI finally realize that I don't need to know anything about my book before I start writing it or what happens next after I start writing it. Lee Child famously knows nothing about his Jack Reacher books before he starts writing them. He starts at zero. Writer's block can be a kind of finding yourself back at zero. I used to worry about that. The character, Jack Reacher, never knows what going to happen in the beginning at all. But he's a perfect example of how to deal with writer's block. If you keep your eyes or your mind open, possibilities can reveal themselves. Something can occur or happen and then based on that, something else happens (like cause and effect or random motion. After all, a block can be in some ways a subconscious assumption that for the moment you can't know what is going to or what can happen. But if you allow yourself to let go of that assumption, magic might or can start to happen. You will think of something, and then it leads to something else. The forward motion of what to write kicks in or can kick in, sometimes very unexpectedly and you are sprung free from your writer's block. (less)

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Larry Bone Getting to write about what you care most about. Meeting other writers through social media who end up having to work through the same challenges you …moreGetting to write about what you care most about. Meeting other writers through social media who end up having to work through the same challenges you face. They are helpful and supportive, which, in turn, you are to them as well. It's also great to see an author you've never met attain success after their first novel. It inspires you to keep going no matter what obstacles you face.(less)

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The Gunslinger (The Dark Tower, #1)

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