Ask the Author: Phil Slattery
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Phil Slattery
I wrote a few. They are in the Microfiction section of my horror collection "A Tale of Hell and Other Works of Horror". I can't recall any right now, but buy the book ;) you can read them there. It's cheap.
Phil Slattery
I have several that I hoped to read during the summer, but haven't gotten to yet. I have listed them under "Currently Reading", but they are Chinua Achebe's "Things Fall Apart", Jack Kerouac's "Desolation Angels", Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle", and William Peter Blatty's "The Exorcist. I finished Homer's "The Odyssey" and Alice Sebold's "The Lovely Bones" recently. I have also read several of Kafka's shorter works. I would like to read Dostoevsky's "Crime and Punishment" soon as well as Tolstoy's "Anna Karenina".
Phil Slattery
I would go to Middle Earth and hang out in the Shire.
Phil Slattery
My books on Amazon are collections of my short stories. The ideas some from a lot of places. I developed the idea for my coming sci-fi novel over the course of a year or so as I tinkered with ideas on time, space, teleportation, the collision of particles at the speed of light, and alternate dimensions as well as moral and issues of personal ethics such as deception and betrayal and human nature.
Phil Slattery
I don't wait for inspiration to write. I am inspired by ideas that pop into my mind. At those times, I try to jot down the idea as soon as I can, whether it is on a napkin, the back of a receipt, or any scrap of paper (that's why I always carry a pen with me). When I arrive home, I type out the idea in my basic short story format. When I write, I try to tell the story as best I can and let it determine its own length. If it turns into a novel, so be it. The play I mentioned earlier, started out as a short story, but I eventually realized that a play told the story best.
Phil Slattery
I am working on a sci-fi novel about a astrophysicist who teleports to another planet and finds himself caught up in a revolution. I am also working on a play examining the relationships between men and women and the conflict between their animalistic natures and their intellectual ones.
Phil Slattery
Place it first in your life. Don't be distracted by meaningless things that take you away from it. Maintain your focus. Write, plan, market, promote at every opportunity.
Phil Slattery
Writing is the best thing. I enjoy it immensely. At its best, it's like watching a movie in my head and I just type down what I see. At other times, I have to sit quietly and plan the details of the work and interweave them.
Phil Slattery
Often, I walk away from the work and return to it later. Sometimes, I work on something else as I always am working on several works at once or I work on administrative tasks such as advertising, publicity, promotion, marketing, etc.
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