Ask the Author: E. Chris Ambrose
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E. Chris Ambrose
Torturing people who don't exist! Er, no, wait... crafting an imagined scene so well that readers fear for the lives of people who don't exist.
E. Chris Ambrose
Writing every day will help you maintain the energy of the work, but the most important thing about your first novel is finishing it. So often, I meet aspiring writers who have begun a dozen books (but never finished) or are a few chapters into their project and are looking for advice about agents and query letters.
Finishing a novel teaches you so much about structure, plot, character arcs, stamina... Often, the first book you finish won't be the first one you sell, but that's okay--that's how we learn!
Finishing a novel teaches you so much about structure, plot, character arcs, stamina... Often, the first book you finish won't be the first one you sell, but that's okay--that's how we learn!
E. Chris Ambrose
The book I'm working on now was inspired by an offhand historical detail about the Jewish library from Rome, seized by the Nazi's and never seen again...
E. Chris Ambrose
I'm most inspired by learning some striking historical or archaeological fact, like hearing about the Nazi POW camp in Arizona, which inspired The Nazi Skull, or learning that Mongolian throat singing is usually based on the landscape, which sparked The Mongol's Coffin.
E. Chris Ambrose
Writer's Block, for me, is almost always an indication that I've just moved the book in the wrong direction. If I take a closer look at the last chapter, I'll see that I've missed a better opportunity, or planted the wrong clues. Sometimes, it takes a walk in the woods, or a good foam blaster battle to shake out the right answer!
E. Chris Ambrose
Bone Guard 5--which involves Italy, a lost library, and a secret submarine...
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