Ask the Author: Gregory Pettit
Answered Questions (5)
Gregory Pettit
The filthy luchre. Money, money, money. If I can keep up my current sales pace, I can retire on my writing proceeds in 1,007,250 days.
Gregory Pettit
I write. No matter how bad things are, I have a word count for the day and I will write until I hit it. Even if what I write is utter garbage and I delete 75% of it when editing, I still write. Some days I just describe one character for a page, others I'll write bad jokes between the characters. The key is to just write.
Gregory Pettit
My favorite fictional couple is the hero and heroine, X and Naani of The Night Land by William Hope Hodgson. The idea that the re-incarnated spirits of lovers could find each other again after millions of years of separation, and only by braving an utterly hostile world to be re-united is the deepest, the most moving, and most unique love story I've ever read. No couple in literature ever deserved their happy ending more than this one.
Gregory Pettit
Honestly - just write. I've heard this from every author that I've spoken to, and it is the advice that got me going too. There are a lot of days when I'm not sure exactly where I'm going to go with a chapter, but I just force myself to sit down every day - every single day, and bang out my words. It might be that I delete half of what I've written the next day, but all the progress adds up over time.
Gregory Pettit
I got the idea for Dream Job from a viral ad campaign a few years ago. In the campaign, there was supposedly a mysterious, threatening looking man showing up in people's dreams throughout the world. It sparked me to think about what would happen if you didn't dream your own dreams.
About Goodreads Q&A
Ask and answer questions about books!
You can pose questions to the Goodreads community with Reader Q&A, or ask your favorite author a question with Ask the Author.
See Featured Authors Answering Questions
Learn more