Ask the Author: Brian C. Taylor
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Brian C. Taylor
Writer's block is not actually a block, it's a hole in your mind where information is missing. Feed that hole whatever you can find to help fill in the missing pieces of the puzzle. Most importantly, don't worry about it, the writing itself should know what it needs to continue. Your characters will often explain your shortcomings to you, listen to them.
Brian C. Taylor
It's all you and the things you create. There are no limitations but those you put on yourself. Anything can happen and you are God.
Brian C. Taylor
Write. Don't think about it, just write. Put your fingers on the keyboard and start typing. Don't worry about anything. "Is it good, is it going somewhere, is it what I want?" Just write. Write a shopping list, an ad to sell your used vibrator, a letter to a ghost. Just write, write, write, write, write, write, write, write and write.
Brian C. Taylor
Many things. I'm currently ramping up the release of Last Human Being, but I'm also in pre-production on the film and hoping to shoot a short teaser for it before the indiegogo campaign. On top of this I write two movie reviews a week for our local newspaper and have already discovered the seeds of a new story, so in my spare moments, I'll daydream discover...
Brian C. Taylor
It might seem lame, but I wait. You can't manufacture inspiration. I think it's more important to not get bogged down by a lack of inspiration and try to force it.
Brian C. Taylor
Last Human Being was created through a desire to write a film that would be very easy to film. One day while cleaning in my spare room, which is all white, I thought, I should make a film where a guy sits in a chair in a white room and something scary happens to him. The "something scary" was the seed for the plot.
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