Ask the Author: M.D. Kambic
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M.D. Kambic
Greetings....
I don't actually have a favorite fictional couple.
Matt
I don't actually have a favorite fictional couple.
Matt
M.D. Kambic
Everest Rising evolved out of combination of factors. One key factor is enjoying books that place the 'common man/woman' into scenarios where some aspect of normal life is suddenly wrenched out into the extraordinary. Not by spaceships or monsters or undead minions, but a twist in the continuum of life that hurtles everyone into a startling changed reality.
The most obvious example would be Jurassic Park– where a scientific breakthrough allows dinosaurs to re-walk the earth. Jules Verne also marched scientists and explorers through adventures that kept the foundation of our existence intact, while revealing a 'Mysterious Island' or 'The Center of the Earth.' Many authors approach their books this way.
If I can create engaging and engaged characters who suddenly need to navigate an unprecedented alteration in everything they take for granted as normal, I (and hopefully my readers) will be on a journey worth taking.
The most obvious example would be Jurassic Park– where a scientific breakthrough allows dinosaurs to re-walk the earth. Jules Verne also marched scientists and explorers through adventures that kept the foundation of our existence intact, while revealing a 'Mysterious Island' or 'The Center of the Earth.' Many authors approach their books this way.
If I can create engaging and engaged characters who suddenly need to navigate an unprecedented alteration in everything they take for granted as normal, I (and hopefully my readers) will be on a journey worth taking.
M.D. Kambic
Mostly from enjoying the amazing stories I've read or seen (in movies) and knowing I could be part of the 'creating' side versus only the 'reading or watching' side.
M.D. Kambic
Tacoma Narrows–
Psychoacoustician Baron Smith, PhD., is obsessed with sound–and has been even before he lost his hearing in an accident when he was ten years old. The biological influence of noise on the human system is a specialized area of science in which Smith is considered second to none. Although he himself can’t hear, his dissection of sound waves through custom-engineered audio receptors, facilitated in his laboratory at Evergreen State College, allows him to ‘see and hear’ in a manner commensurate with his calling.
As Smith reviews one of his favorite historical film clips–the recording of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge disaster–he experiences a shudder of fear. He will need to look closely, frame by frame. To ‘listen’, with every technology at his disposal. And to learn to pray, if the evidence he is uncovering should turn out to be true.
and...
The Three Green Sisters –
The Three Green Sisters takes place in Regent Square, PA, and concerns three young siblings, Miller, Boyd, and Dragon, who stumble on a strange bone in the nearby woods. “It’s a perfect circle,” one of them notes. The few acres of park they explore near their home–they soon discover–has more buried beneath its tranquil facade, including a revelation so shocking it will topple empires both past and present.
Psychoacoustician Baron Smith, PhD., is obsessed with sound–and has been even before he lost his hearing in an accident when he was ten years old. The biological influence of noise on the human system is a specialized area of science in which Smith is considered second to none. Although he himself can’t hear, his dissection of sound waves through custom-engineered audio receptors, facilitated in his laboratory at Evergreen State College, allows him to ‘see and hear’ in a manner commensurate with his calling.
As Smith reviews one of his favorite historical film clips–the recording of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge disaster–he experiences a shudder of fear. He will need to look closely, frame by frame. To ‘listen’, with every technology at his disposal. And to learn to pray, if the evidence he is uncovering should turn out to be true.
and...
The Three Green Sisters –
The Three Green Sisters takes place in Regent Square, PA, and concerns three young siblings, Miller, Boyd, and Dragon, who stumble on a strange bone in the nearby woods. “It’s a perfect circle,” one of them notes. The few acres of park they explore near their home–they soon discover–has more buried beneath its tranquil facade, including a revelation so shocking it will topple empires both past and present.
M.D. Kambic
Show your writing to someone who will tell you the truth. Listen closely to the critical assessment. Suffer for a week or two. Let your ego recede. Then take a second look and see if the advice will actually help your writing get better. Assimilate the challenges ahead and re-write. Your writing will improve.
M.D. Kambic
Creating a world, situation and characters from scratch. Fabulous!
M.D. Kambic
It's not so much writer's block with me as writing material that turns the reader away from the story. I seldom lack for the ability to arrange words. Learning to not have so much of the effort end up edited out is a key for me.
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