Charles Davis asked Andy Peloquin:

Hello Andy, was just wondering if you could give an aspiring author some tips? I love your writing and characters and would be happy to be half as good as you.

Andy Peloquin I won't pretend to be an expert--I am still learning and growing as a writer daily--but I guess my best piece of advice would be to learn when to trust yourself and your understanding of the characters. I'm a plotter and I may start a story with a set idea, but as the writing progresses, things change during the course of creation and I have to trust that my brain, my innate creativity, and my knowledge of who it is I'm writing is putting together pieces instinctively, and eventually my conscious mind will catch up and figure it out. Some of the best story elements have sprung from a half-formed idea that I came up with on the fly. Now, I've learned to trust myself to make the ideas work

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