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Benjamin Kissell
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Benjamin Kissell
Coffee.
Deadlines, days of procrastination, and copious amounts of bitter, bitter black coffee. I also tend to write with various albums on a loop - Madonna's "Ray of Light", the "Were the World Mine" or "Becoming Jane" soundtracks, for ex. - to get me in the right place and loosen up, creatively.
Deadlines, days of procrastination, and copious amounts of bitter, bitter black coffee. I also tend to write with various albums on a loop - Madonna's "Ray of Light", the "Were the World Mine" or "Becoming Jane" soundtracks, for ex. - to get me in the right place and loosen up, creatively.
Benjamin Kissell
I am bouncing between the unnamed sequel to 'A Queen of Blood and Glitter', a MG/YA short story for an anthology, and a weird idea that's been floating in the back of my mind.
Benjamin Kissell
Read.
Read LOTS of books. Read things that challenge you and things that excite you. The best writers are the best readers.
Read LOTS of books. Read things that challenge you and things that excite you. The best writers are the best readers.
Benjamin Kissell
The scads of money and adoring fans.
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Okay; paying the rent and utilities and some fans?
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Okay, affording a $5 sub for dinner and not hearing my Mum and Gran bemoan my expensive college years and "why aren't you an artist?" lecture once again.
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Seriously, though - I love the feeling of getting the worlds that live inside my brain out on to the page and the indescribable joy at seeing a reader *get* it.
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Okay; paying the rent and utilities and some fans?
...
Okay, affording a $5 sub for dinner and not hearing my Mum and Gran bemoan my expensive college years and "why aren't you an artist?" lecture once again.
...
Seriously, though - I love the feeling of getting the worlds that live inside my brain out on to the page and the indescribable joy at seeing a reader *get* it.
Benjamin Kissell
Coffee, cake, and bingeing on the BBC adapted Narnia Chronicles and the 70's animated The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe. This tends to loosen things up in my head and triggers nostalgia and childhood imagination ... and may partially explain my oddly British accent.
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