Ask the Author: T. Mason Gilbert
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T. Mason Gilbert
I never get it. If you do get it, my advice is to write badly on purpose. Mark where you are in the manuscript and just continue the story by writing anything no matter how bad it is.This way you will create yourself out of your dilemma. Cheers!
T. Mason Gilbert
Creating something from nothing and entertaining others. Stephen King says writing is telepathy. So writers are telepaths. What's more awesome than that?
T. Mason Gilbert
Read a lot. Write a lot. The only book on writing I recommend is Stephen King's "On Writing." I would advise not to take too much advice from others. Stephen pretty much covers it. There is a lot of free advice on publishing and marketing at Smashwords.com. I know a lot of people say join writing groups or critique groups or beta reader groups. I advise against this. Don't listen to critiques. The only people who count are your readers. Listen to the real readers. First, you need to write a great book. Second, you need to publish it and then market like the dickens. If you market like the dickens, and no one buys your "great" book, it probably isn't great. Look in the mirror and learn from your reviewers ... and from Stephen King. This is the advice I follow myself.
T. Mason Gilbert
I'm working on several things. The second book for the 216 Trilogy entitled "The Genetic Stone" which will take the longest because of research on nanotechnology, genetics, and language isolates. Then I have a book of short stories which are mostly humor, suspense, and horror. That book is entitled "Ten Random Sentences" because it will contain several stories from contests I hold on my Facebook author page, where I write a short story containing the first ten random sentences posted by people who are fans of the page. Then I also wrote an erotic sex comedy for NaNoWriMo 2014 and will be publishing it under the pen name Matt Broseling. I'm doing the author edit right now and will publish it as soon as it is professionally edited.
T. Mason Gilbert
By actually sitting down at my desk and staring at a blank screen in MS Word. I get the urge to fill it up. I don't get writer's block. Ever. The hard part is sitting down.
T. Mason Gilbert
Back in 1998 when I was writing a lot of screenplays, I was manning a marketing booth for a company I used to work for. During breaks between seminars, attendees would walk down the aisles visiting various booths. When they went back to the seminar there was a lot of down time which was extremely boring. During one of these lulls, the idea for a screenplay hit me at full force and completely realized. I wrote the story down very quickly as it was fully formed. I started writing it as a screenplay soon after and then lost the computer file. I always thought it would make a good book. So when the rehab I was working for in 2013 closed, I didn't got back to work. Instead, I spent a year writing the "The Sacrifist."
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