Ask the Author: Cy Young
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Cy Young
From a bean in my sink. I had just washed out a pan and there was this little black bean, all alone in the sink. I thought of a title, The Tiniest Bean. I looked up that title and found it had already been taken. So I changed the title to The Smallest Bean, which was available. The story is for children and is about a little bean isolated from all the other beans who think this little bean is too small and stupid and not worthy of beandom. The smallest bean wanders off and lives as an outcast, lonely and sad, convinced it's a failure. It lies down in the dirt and goes to sleep ... and wakes up to find it has roots all over the place and has become the progenitor of a nation of beans, called the black bean, that's the most popular bean in the world.
Cy Young
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Cy Young
Keep writing. Have a schedule, write every day at a specific time if possible; discipline is one of the great qualities needed to be published and have your books read by an audience. Also seek inspiration; it's a shadowy quality but attained through constant writing. Also read a lot, classics and the genre you're writing within.
Cy Young
Self-examination and being authentic in what I'm writing, not purveying a P.O.V. that is affected by an agenda; also it's great doing research on various subjects and learning new life lessons from those subjects. Some of the subjects I've researched: The first World Series in 1903 regarding the formation of the new American League and its battle with the well-established National League and the colorful ball players of the time for the screenplay The Kings Of October; weapon systems, Marine battle strategy, 18 wheelers' manufacturing and operation, history of the Texas Rangers, karate champions and training, for Deathload; and circuses, court proceedings re committing elderly persons to a home without their permission, comic books, bullying, etc., for Onions. The list goes on and on and the knowledge gained from these researches is illuminating.
Cy Young
I don't have it.
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