Maria
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Megan Erickson:
Hello, Ms. Erickson. Against the rules, I wanted to ask you about your opinion on writer's block, bad first drafts, negative reviews and procrastination. I know none of these are about your past releases or upcoming ones or your addiction but as I'm an aspiring writer, I often suffer from these and I just wanted to know about your opinion of them and if you have experienced any of them, how you overcame? Thanks, :)
Megan Erickson
Hello Maria!
Let's see: Regarding writer's block--I have a couple of fall back tricks. I listen to music that inspires me or I take a drive. A shower often jogs my creativity too. And sometimes, I just have to force myself to write anyway. At least then words are on the page. I can always revise them!
I'm a huge procrastinator. But then I work well on a tight deadline so it works for me?
Regarding first drafts -- mine are certainly not perfect. A lot of times, I'll stop about halfway when drafting and go back through the beginning and fix errors for consistency before finishing up a book. "Bad" first drafts are okay. The magic of a book is in the revisions.
Negative reviews sting but I do a pretty good job deal with them. Here's the deal, once I publish my book? It's not mine. I let it goooooo. It's in the readers' hands now.
I hope that helped! Good luck to you!
Let's see: Regarding writer's block--I have a couple of fall back tricks. I listen to music that inspires me or I take a drive. A shower often jogs my creativity too. And sometimes, I just have to force myself to write anyway. At least then words are on the page. I can always revise them!
I'm a huge procrastinator. But then I work well on a tight deadline so it works for me?
Regarding first drafts -- mine are certainly not perfect. A lot of times, I'll stop about halfway when drafting and go back through the beginning and fix errors for consistency before finishing up a book. "Bad" first drafts are okay. The magic of a book is in the revisions.
Negative reviews sting but I do a pretty good job deal with them. Here's the deal, once I publish my book? It's not mine. I let it goooooo. It's in the readers' hands now.
I hope that helped! Good luck to you!
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Robin
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Megan Erickson:
First congratulations on Strong Signal! It's an amazing book & I loved it! I have 2 questions if that's Ok. 1. Will you and Santino be writing any more books together? 2. If you could bring 1 character from one of your books to life, which one would it be & why? Thanks so much for such wonderful and amazing books! I have high standards when it comes to books & you go beyond meeting them!
Elithanathile
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Megan Erickson:
Megan, Hi - Kudos to you on creating and writing such brilliant book-people into existence (your men are too real to call mere characters ;-)). I absolutely adored 'Trust the Focus' and look forward to 'Focus on Me' with baited breath. My question is this, do you have an idea of many books the 'In Focus' world will include? Here's to it being a long series ;-).
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