Ask the Author: Steven Schneider
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Steven Schneider
The first time someone you don't know pays money for your book. That's the first best thing.
Steven Schneider
In 2012 I learned of the death of a girlfriend from high school and also of her life after I knew her dedicated to music thanatology at the end of life. I admire this greatly and one of her friends steered me toward books that she had studied. A few threads of stories I started when I knew her began to weave into the story of her life. So, she was a muse, and became Charlotte in the novel.
Steven Schneider
Inspiration is something that happens to you whether or not you want it. I listen to lectures from The Great Courses on science and history for ideas to drive plots. I write down any little idea or idea that pops into my head. I read my own work to generate stream of consciousness associations as I rewrite it.
Steven Schneider
A sequel to Sweet Charlotte in the Higgs Field where Charlotte must travel the multiverse again to save the home of souls, the dark forever, from an ecological disaster created by human technology. Along the way, she will trace the dawn of consciousness, the loss of oneness in the self, from the steppes to the stars.
Steven Schneider
Be your own most demanding editor. Let creativity flow, get it all down on paper no matter what it is. Then apply craftsmanship to the raw material. Remember, no one has to figure out your book in order to pass 10th grade English.
Steven Schneider
It seems to sort itself out in dreams, non cognitive connecting. What they say is true, sometimes the characters get impatient and just show you what's going to happen. So, I would say, I put it aside for a while away from the logical brain and let intuition and dreams kick it around.
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