Ask the Author: Adam N. Webber
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Adam N. Webber
Writer's what?
I wish I had writer's block. I'd be able to relax for a little bit. There is too much going on in my head to have writers block. A block just wouldn't fit in there.
If I REALLY don't know what to write, I just take a nap and there is more material ready in the morning.
I wish I had writer's block. I'd be able to relax for a little bit. There is too much going on in my head to have writers block. A block just wouldn't fit in there.
If I REALLY don't know what to write, I just take a nap and there is more material ready in the morning.
Adam N. Webber
Getting to write.
I can't imagine not writing.
I get to go wherever I want whenever I want and it's through a hobby that is pretty much free. Who wouldn't want to do that?
I can't imagine not writing.
I get to go wherever I want whenever I want and it's through a hobby that is pretty much free. Who wouldn't want to do that?
Adam N. Webber
Write.
Seriously. That's the most important part.
Second most important is organization. I have known many unorganized writers who were brilliant but could never get anything out because their disorganization kept them from getting anything done. Outline your stories. Keep journals. Take notes. Make plans. All that stuff you high school English teacher told you to do and you hated it: that's exactly what you need to be doing. Sorry to burst your bubble, but that's how it is.
Number three: Edit. If you don't know how to edit, then you don't know how to write.
Number four: Surround yourself with other writers. This doesn't mean you need to go to college, but college certainly helps.
Seriously. That's the most important part.
Second most important is organization. I have known many unorganized writers who were brilliant but could never get anything out because their disorganization kept them from getting anything done. Outline your stories. Keep journals. Take notes. Make plans. All that stuff you high school English teacher told you to do and you hated it: that's exactly what you need to be doing. Sorry to burst your bubble, but that's how it is.
Number three: Edit. If you don't know how to edit, then you don't know how to write.
Number four: Surround yourself with other writers. This doesn't mean you need to go to college, but college certainly helps.
Adam N. Webber
I already mentioned this in a previous question, but I'm working on a postcolonial, postmodern, sci-fi, comedy that is a mix between Westerns, Space Operas, and the CuChulainn mythos, with a little bit of other things tossed in there. The working title is "I Never Liked Opera: But Space Is Such A Very Beautiful Place." Long, I know. But, I really like it and it does a pretty good job of capturing what I'm going for.
It's about many different things, but the setting is sometime shortly after mankind has ventured out into the stars. Think Oregon Trail, but in space. It's a weird expansionist period where countries and corporations based on Earth still have a strong influence on what is going on in the solar system, but the lines of nationalism and capitalism are thinning between an ever expanding human empire. "Lightfoots" (people born and raised in space) and "Exos" (people born and raised off-Terra) have a hard time even understanding concepts like nationalism. Eventually I'll assume it'll end in some sort of united humanity, but for now there are growing pains.
At the center are Floater, a black cowboy, and Niamh, an Irish pilot. They're two sixteen year old best friends on an unlikely journey across known space. What will they be doing?
We'll see in a few months...
It's about many different things, but the setting is sometime shortly after mankind has ventured out into the stars. Think Oregon Trail, but in space. It's a weird expansionist period where countries and corporations based on Earth still have a strong influence on what is going on in the solar system, but the lines of nationalism and capitalism are thinning between an ever expanding human empire. "Lightfoots" (people born and raised in space) and "Exos" (people born and raised off-Terra) have a hard time even understanding concepts like nationalism. Eventually I'll assume it'll end in some sort of united humanity, but for now there are growing pains.
At the center are Floater, a black cowboy, and Niamh, an Irish pilot. They're two sixteen year old best friends on an unlikely journey across known space. What will they be doing?
We'll see in a few months...
Adam N. Webber
Music and Movies mostly. But if I'm writing something I also like to read a bunch of the texts from that genre. I'm extremely impatient and have a really hard time focusing on reading things for an extended period of time, so usually when I say I read texts, it really means I read the first half of a text. Excluding my book and text books, the last book I read cover to cover was Ready Player One.
That all being said. My main inspiration to write is an unquenchable desire for exploration. I was born into the wrong year. Just a few hundred years more and I'd be in the right spot, I think. For now, the only way I can get to the places I want to go is by writing.
That all being said. My main inspiration to write is an unquenchable desire for exploration. I was born into the wrong year. Just a few hundred years more and I'd be in the right spot, I think. For now, the only way I can get to the places I want to go is by writing.
Adam N. Webber
I'm not quite sure where ideas come from. Usually I'm just watching a movie or listening to music and BAM! For no reason whatsoever I'll have an idea for a book. Typically these ideas get tucked into the recesses of my mind until something makes me remember them.
Other times I'll actually actively seek out a story line. This often happens when I am writing genre fiction, or I find a few inspirations I'd like to mix together. Right now I'm working on a novel that mixes together old westerns like The Magnificent 7 (I know, just a remake of The 7 Samurai), old Space Opera, and the Cu Cuchulainn Mythos into a funky Postmodern Comedy-SciFi. But that idea only came because I liked all those things and decided to mash them together.
My sparks of ideas usually stay hot for quite a while. The Soft Dragons Thunder caught fire when I thought of the working title "What Fairies Are For." I mapped it out, played with some of the characters, eventually changed it to first person from third person, and the book was born.
Other times I'll actually actively seek out a story line. This often happens when I am writing genre fiction, or I find a few inspirations I'd like to mix together. Right now I'm working on a novel that mixes together old westerns like The Magnificent 7 (I know, just a remake of The 7 Samurai), old Space Opera, and the Cu Cuchulainn Mythos into a funky Postmodern Comedy-SciFi. But that idea only came because I liked all those things and decided to mash them together.
My sparks of ideas usually stay hot for quite a while. The Soft Dragons Thunder caught fire when I thought of the working title "What Fairies Are For." I mapped it out, played with some of the characters, eventually changed it to first person from third person, and the book was born.
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