Ask the Author: Shannon Haddock
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Shannon Haddock
Just write. Forget all the other advice. You can fix the story once it's written. Until then, butt in the chair, fingers on keyboard, one word after the other until you have something finished.
Shannon Haddock
Getting to share my cool ideas with people.
Shannon Haddock
I walk away from that story for a while. Sometimes I come back to it months later and pick up like I never left it; sometimes I realize I need to rewrite the whole thing in a different pov or with a different length in mind; sometimes I abandon it indefinitely because I realize that I, at least at present, don't have the skill to pull off what I'm trying to do; sometimes I just decide that it was an alternate leg of the trousers of time and abandon it completely. Recognizing when it's the last one is very hard, and I usually have gotten writer's block several times in a story before I realize that there's nothing I can do to make it work.
Shannon Haddock
No More Lies, a space opera romance/coming-of-age novel about Robin Kavaliro, who starts the story a spy and assassin who's just looking to get laid while on vacation. He ends up falling in love, which rather complicates his life.
Shannon Haddock
I woke up with the first bit of Jake's Last Mission in my head one day. So, I guess it came from somewhere in my subconscious.
The book I'm writing now happened the same way. I had a scene in my head and no idea what was going on around it.
The book I'm writing now happened the same way. I had a scene in my head and no idea what was going on around it.
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