Ask the Author: Sam J.
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Sam J.
Practice. I never went to school for writing, but because I read books so much and was passionate about doing it - I wrote an entire novel less than a year and am working on my second. Also, network with other authors, but connect even more with readers who will read your work.
Sam J.
Read another book genre and author with a unique writing style for inspiration
Sam J.
You can escape your reality whenever you feel like it, and create a world others can indulge in.
Sam J.
Great question - I pretty much read gritty books that are set in places like NY and Baltimore and those definitely wouldn't be my places of choice to travel to so I would have to go with books I've read as a child. This is a little embarrassing, but I wouldn't have minded visiting the 'muggle world' in Harry Potter (lol). It would be different and I could use magic. You can't use that in most of the books I read.
Sam J.
Finishing up book one of my new series before I start on book two :-)
Sam J.
Reading! As a child I loved reading books and visiting the library then once I grew older I found myself stuck in bookstores for hours on end, studying different writing styles, story elements, and ways I could format a book of my own someday. I also started realizing that the type of books I wanted to read hadn't been written yet or a lot of books I lost interest in, so I decided to write my own.
Sam J.
Definitely my family for the most part, but many of the people that surrounded me in the past and present played a major part in plot development and character inspiration.
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