Ask the Author: Michael McGovern
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Michael McGovern
My second book will be released on July 22nd and it is called Killing Angels.
Michael McGovern
Just write anything. Doesn't matter if it's shit, you write it and move on. Don't try to fix it right away either. Let it sit there and it will also sit in your mind. By the time you come around to it on the next draft you'll have an idea or two.
Michael McGovern
The rush of a new idea. A whole new world of possibility waiting to be explored. A lot of writing is pure work, but the initial idea is pure fantasy waiting to be made reality.
Michael McGovern
The first draft is never good enough. Neither is the second, or the third. Keep redrafting until you are sick of looking at your own work - then stick it in a drawer for a month before working on it some more.
Michael McGovern
An end of the world tale set in Louisiana.
Michael McGovern
I always carry two pens with me. It's an OCD habit of mine. I developed this habit before I ever wrote my first word. As a child I would look at my action figures and find them too rigid, their features too defined. I would play with pens instead. When I hold one pen out in front of me, I visualise it as someone's arm. If I can picture their arm, then I can picture the rest of their body. The second pen is a second person with a second arm and a second body. With two characters held out in front of me, I can imagine the world around them. From there I slip into a trance and let the process take me. It always starts with two pens.
Michael McGovern
It started when I dropped out of school. People had a lot of opinions about the kind of person that I was, and those opinions did not match up with reality. I remember thinking to myself that if all the things that people said about me were true, then I would be a truly horrible person, capable of vile things. So, I devised a character that was a caricature of all the negative expectations people had for me, and that is how Aaron Walsh was born. Morbid Thoughts is a novel born out of the rage of my teenage years and written in my adult years.
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