tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9120487666126442427.post7015924925858720838..comments2023-12-10T16:39:49.811+08:00Comments on Egoboo WA: 4F Day! Four Questions for FridaySarahPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10331711532075086214noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9120487666126442427.post-32228778315722652392010-06-04T15:40:23.951+08:002010-06-04T15:40:23.951+08:00Hi all--
Most interesting thing about ME as a wri...Hi all--<br /><br />Most interesting thing about ME as a writer?<br />Actually, I'm very hard pressed to think of anything that's interesting about me as a writer. A lot of the time I don't think writing is that interesting; it's a job, it's work, it's what I do. My mum would probably tell you the most interesting thing is that I can work through attacks of depression, etc, but that's my mum, and she's a gem. :) I think of it as just getting stuck into it. Even when the depression is biting hard, I can usually still do "patching and spackling", going over previously written stuff, fixing it up, polishing, addings bits here and there, cutting scruffy bits.<br /><br />What's the most boring thing about ME as a writer?<br />Just about everything, even what I wear when I'm working. It's just a routine, habit, doing the same thing each weekday, until a project is done. The fact that I'm *always* thinking about what I'm working on, no matter what's going on. Michelle is used to it. My folks are used to it, too, seeing that look in my eye, when I'm off in the Land of Book, trying to figure stuff out.<br /><br />What excites me about writing?<br />Getting the initial idea. Actually starting in on a new book, something sufficiently scary that I put it off as much as possible. Having one of those sessions where you just lose yourself in the story, and it's like a dream. When it's over I do feel like I'm "waking up", and I realise all this time has passed in no time at all. Those sessions are good, but they're not frequent. Letting the characters boss me around helps inspire such sessions. The other thing that's exciting? Finishing. Writing "The End". Then, much later, seeing the finished, published book, in a shop. That never gets old. And signing books for people. Always makes me so nervous my hand shakes something chronic, but it's just about The Best Part Ever! :)<br /><br />What stops me from writing?<br />Procrastination. Reading. The Internet. Real life, as some of you folks mentioned. Stuff happening outside. I try not to let writer's block bother me as much as it used to, and I'm inclined to see it as a myth these days. One of my favourite ever authors, William Gibson, says he *always* has writer's block, but he works through it, and has never known anything different. This is why he's one of my favourite-ever writers. Something else that stops me: getting stuck. Having characters in a pickle, waiting for me to figure out how to get them out of it (or whether they should have been in it in the first place). In the book I just finished, part of the climax was that my hero, Spider, had to figure out what was wrong with a rather unusual time machine, and it had to be something really rare and strange, and could I think what that might be? I had no clue. I did eventually figure it out, which meant Spider figured it out, and all was well , but it does rather hold up production while everyone sits around waiting for me.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00031531258119047180noreply@blogger.com