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Ron Rayborne

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http://midmiocene.wordpress.com

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Science Fiction, Suspense, Romance

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David Attenborough, Loren Eiseley, Edward Abbey, John Muir etc.

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See https://midmiocene.wordpress.com/2015... for details.

Ron Rayborne, who lives on the beautiful central coast of California, is an avid hiker, animal lover and dreamer. His first "official" writing, an essay called The Sacred Secret: A Hiker's Meditations On Life, detailing one particularly memorable such trek, won first place in his college creative writing contest and inclusion in its publication, Word Of Mouth.

A romantic at heart, Ron often imagines the what it would have been like to live in a pristine prehistoric world. To that end he researched and wrote Opalescence.
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How do you deal with writer’s block?

Ron Rayborne I'm not sure that I'm qualified to answer this question as I've only written one book. But it's the one book that I've wanted to write for so long. At…moreI'm not sure that I'm qualified to answer this question as I've only written one book. But it's the one book that I've wanted to write for so long. At first, I worried about writer's block. I think the power of suggestion makes it worse.You hear so much about it that it begins to take on an impression of the inevitable and insurmountable. There are huge books written about how to overcome writer's block. Just the size of those books makes it seem like an onerous task. So I had this story inside me, and it felt like a dam that was ready to burst, but worry about writer's block was stopping me.

My book is very detail oriented, in that, there is a lot of science in it. That took years to research. During this time, I was also an avid hiker. Thus I built up experiences that helped me know what I wanted to have happen in the book. I made lists of everything. After a while, the book, we'll the skeleton of it, was staring me in the face. All I had to do then was clothe it. When it seemed like a baby about to be born, I retreated to my writing room, put on evocative music and began. It drifted, swirled and cascaded through me. It was the most fun I've ever had. The editing, though, was the opposite of that. In the quick writing of Opalescence I made a lot of annoying typos, which has been as painful to fix as writing the book was enjoyable.

Anyway, I didn't force it. I let it flow on it's own. I think there is a counter-force when you try to force things. Relaxing and loving the story was like removing the dam.(less)

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What’s the best thing about being a writer?

Ron Rayborne Having gone through a life of being misunderstood, for me, the best thing about writing Opalescence is that I was finally able to express myself, and …moreHaving gone through a life of being misunderstood, for me, the best thing about writing Opalescence is that I was finally able to express myself, and to (hopefully) make myself understood. The next best thing is that I was able to do something to communicate to people what it is that we are losing. So many people today have no idea. We are penned inside our buildings and behind our computers, televisions etc. Our little, hermetically sealed cocoons of humanity. Yet there is a whole (natural) world out there that is passing us by. (less)

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Well it’s been almost two years as I ran out of room on my blog (I have a free account). I’ve deleted some posts and non-essential pictures, and in so doing wanted to make space on this blog for this. It’s quite rare. Lately I’ve made a little friend. He’s a Hermit Thrush; a shy […]

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“Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
Walk beside me… just be my friend”
― Albert Camus

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“If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music he hears, however measured or far away.”
― Henry David Thoreau

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