Ask the Author: Guy Lozier
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Guy Lozier
Stop putting off creating your story if you are. Write it. Start it now. The only one stopping you is you. For those that are writing, I found it useful to outline my story from A to Z. This gives you a place to start and a place to end. This makes it easy for me to fill what is in between. I like to identify several characters and then attempt to give each one some history. Show the things they experienced or are experiencing to give them depth. Don't have card board cutout characters running around in your story that runs into the scene and runs out without allowing them to emotionally effect your audience. A good story will have many highs and lows...the sine wave of the story will keep your readers coming back for more.
Guy Lozier
When I feel this begin to manifest in my mind, I step back and look at this process that is happening to me. This was how I learned to stop it from fully building into a force that would effect me. Yes I could see that it was writers block. It simply takes your world and holds it ransom. I could see it happening a few times. I stopped what I was doing and evaluated what I was seeing beginning to form. I refuse to let something like this beast of separation take my creative flow away from me. I had basically written my novel completely in 44 days and had already edited it over a half dozen times. During those 44 days I had noticed this happening a few times. It was like I could see my work over there staring at me trying to tell me that it was no longer mine. As if it had been stripped from me and given a life of its own that I was not privy to any longer. But as I have explained, when I saw this staring me in the face and my mind blank of input, I looked it in the face and pulled it back to myself. I refused to allow writers block from stopping me from doing what I was having a blast doing. It was that simple.
Guy Lozier
The best thing about being a writer is that I can create anything I want. Anything. Any world and any universe, all of my own design, my own logic. This is the best thing about being a writer. Getting to turn your creativeness loose on the world. There is no right or wrong world if you detail it right. Its fantastic.
Guy Lozier
I was originally inspired by Andre Norton and the wonderful fantasy tales of witches. Then later, after I had purchased a book store of my own, I began to read fantasy and science fiction series. I went through any author who could spin a good tale and keep it going, finding ways to keep me interested to read the next book. I began to collect those series until I filled book shelves covering walls. All these wonderful worlds of unique individuals and whole civilizations depending on their next move to save them. All those authors inspired me to create my own worlds and dimensional realities. So what inspires me today to write is the need to allow these inner worlds to live. To find ways to free them from my imagination with a life of their own. This inspires me to write. Now I can only hope that I will inspire a few minds with my creations.
Guy Lozier
I had developed another story and was in the middle of production on it as a TV Show when a friend of mine showed up one day and his appearance was one of a guru or shaman type. I had one of those rare moments where you are flooded with imagery and ideas of a story of another day and time and place...it all developed in a matter of seconds and I offered my friend an opportunity to do some film work with me. He didn't accept right away but within a few months he accepted. We have been working together ever since. The story developed over time and became an epic series which matched up to my second novel in the series which began as the first...lol...I have so many stories to tell that it will be years before they are all found in print....
Guy Lozier
The Movie "The Eternal: Guardian of Light" based on my Novel of the same name...
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