Ask the Author: Matt Hart
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Matt Hart
Sally, my sister's life-sized doll, stared at me with blank eyes from across the room. I wondered if it would be underneath my bed again when I woke up.
Matt Hart
Add more zombies.
Seriously though, I add conflict. If I write a section that seems to be going nowhere or might be getting boring, then I throw a wrench in -- more zombies, somebody gets shot ... anything unexpected, then I just see where the story goes from there.
Seriously though, I add conflict. If I write a section that seems to be going nowhere or might be getting boring, then I throw a wrench in -- more zombies, somebody gets shot ... anything unexpected, then I just see where the story goes from there.
Matt Hart
I'm the first to find out what happens in a story I enjoy reading. :-)
Matt Hart
1. Find your voice: keep writing for any ideas you have, and try different voices, such as first person, third person, omniscient, and even second person. You'll eventually find a style that works for you.
2. Use a creative technique to discover an idea for writing: take the genre you want to write about, and add a random "thing" -- a person, a situation, a technology, and just write a paragraph on how they're connected.
2. Use a creative technique to discover an idea for writing: take the genre you want to write about, and add a random "thing" -- a person, a situation, a technology, and just write a paragraph on how they're connected.
Matt Hart
Book 3 of the Apocalypse Makers series.
Matt Hart
I've always been a good storyteller -- mostly about the crazy things that have happened to me: seven near-death experiences at my last count. I've been writing non-fiction essays for a while, but it took a lot of short story and start/stop attempts before I was able to successfully write fiction.
Matt Hart
I enjoy reading the post-apocalyptic genre, and there are a lot of good series out there like Slow Burn, the Blue Plague and the Perseid Collapse. I also enjoy hard sci-fi, and I wanted to somehow combine the two.
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