Ask the Author: Elodie Colt
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Elodie Colt
It will be released by the end of the year:)
Elodie Colt
No idea. I love action & crime and I love futuristic stories in general. I watch a lot of TV and read a lot of books. My brain is like a sponge and takes it all in. This is how the first book came to paper and it just took me three months to get the manuscript finished.
Elodie Colt
No inspiration needed. I love to write, always have. I don't need extra motivation and I'm wondering how authors cope with that who need to set themselves a word-count limit every day. How good can the story be if I have to force myself to write?
I wrote my first fiction stories when I was thirteen - unfortunately, I've stashed them on the old diskettes as there didn't exist any USB sticks or other storages back then. I'd love to have a look at them again, all those years later!
For me, the days are too short to get everything on paper. Sometimes I sit eight hours in front of my computer until my fingers ache and my eyes water and it still isn't enough to satisfy my writing hunger :)
I wrote my first fiction stories when I was thirteen - unfortunately, I've stashed them on the old diskettes as there didn't exist any USB sticks or other storages back then. I'd love to have a look at them again, all those years later!
For me, the days are too short to get everything on paper. Sometimes I sit eight hours in front of my computer until my fingers ache and my eyes water and it still isn't enough to satisfy my writing hunger :)
Elodie Colt
One hundred things at once! My first book will be out in April 2017, so I'm currently implementing my social media strategies and create teasers. Additionally, I've already started my next project - a book series. After that, I was thinking about translating my first book to German as this is my mother tongue.
Elodie Colt
Actually, I have two.
First: Read 100 books. This is the number I’d recommend before becoming a publisher. Of course, you can always be a writer, even when you haven’t read one single book. But, to get a feel of wording, plot, structure, etc. you should read at least 100 books of the genre you want to focus on. Before you become a publisher, be a reader.
Second: Keep your eyes and ears open. The world out there is full of inspiration. You might see an action movie and get ideas how to improve a battle scene. You might listen to a song that makes a romantic scene stronger. You might see a flyer on the street that has the exact wording you’re looking for. Your friend might say something funny that you can include in a dialogue. Be aware all the time.
First: Read 100 books. This is the number I’d recommend before becoming a publisher. Of course, you can always be a writer, even when you haven’t read one single book. But, to get a feel of wording, plot, structure, etc. you should read at least 100 books of the genre you want to focus on. Before you become a publisher, be a reader.
Second: Keep your eyes and ears open. The world out there is full of inspiration. You might see an action movie and get ideas how to improve a battle scene. You might listen to a song that makes a romantic scene stronger. You might see a flyer on the street that has the exact wording you’re looking for. Your friend might say something funny that you can include in a dialogue. Be aware all the time.
Elodie Colt
That depends how you define "writer's block". If it means having no idea how to start a book and needing days to write the first sentence, then I can say this is something I didn't have to deal with yet, thankfully. But there are always situations where you don't know how to go on with your book as you have difficulties putting one action and the next together. The best way for me is to sit down in my living room, close my eyes while there's nothing but silence surrounding me, and reply the possibilities through my mind over and over. Eventually, a solution pops up in my head. The good thing about being a writer is, you're always spinning fantasies in your head, no matter what you do, even when you go to sleep. I tend to go over my stories the half an hour it takes for me to drive to work. I also had some striking ideas under the shower.
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