Your Own Words–Questions Week

I’ve always had a particularly difficult time appreciating my own work, and I think this is true of most creative people. I’ve known a lot of artists, unrelated to even writing, and few of them have ever said I love everything I have ever created. A number of them know they are talented, but it’s difficult at times not to nitpick your work to death. That is why I think it is important to really look at some ideas or whole stories or even just one line that you are particularly proud of.

There are actually quite a few ideas and stories that I’ve really enjoyed, more ideas because they’re fairly vague and you can enjoy the concept even if you don’t necessarily enjoy every little piece of the finished product. I think though of all the concepts, if I had to really chose one, I think it would have to be a novel I wrote about an alternate reality version of America, I don’t really want to get into too many details because I haven’t quite decided if I’m ever going to go back to writing that novel in some form or another, but it was really a story that I just absolutely loved, it was something that a lot of people who read it really enjoyed, it had a sort of thriller pacing and I think I would classify it sort of as a psychological thriller, so it was really one of my favorite ideas that I’ve ever come up with and I really hope that at some point I go back to that book and work on that book again.

What is your favorite line/story/idea that you have written?