Ask the Author: Rob Needham
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Rob Needham
Knowing that something I created is out there being experienced by others. In a lot of ways it's the same as playing a prank - super satisfying when the teacher uses the eraser with chalk stuck in it.
Rob Needham
A novel. A work of fiction. Surprise surprise, it's another one that includes death and what happened afterward.
Rob Needham
Listen to your critics and figure out how to overcome the ones that seem plausible.
Rob Needham
This reverts back to my answer to how I get inspired in the first place. If I deprive my brain of external entertainment for long enough, it will start inventing on its own most of the time. Whether or not it brings me anything useful is a little more of a crapshoot, but that's why you keep trying. Everything's a numbers game.
Rob Needham
I'm most creative when I'm allowed to simply daydream and follow long meandering trains of thought until they arrive somewhere interesting. A small seed of an idea will remind me of something else by some thin association, which will loosely remind me of yet something else, etc. not unlike an abstract game of Uno. Seldom does this work while I'm otherwise mentally engaged, and being an absolute glutton for stimuli, the first challenge is to deprive myself of any external distractions for a long period. A common example for me might be going for a long run without wearing headphones. It has served well numerous times, but oh boy is it painful. But then, a fruit must be squeezed before it will give up the juice.
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