Ask the Author: Richard Powell
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Richard Powell
Which book are you interested in? I can send you a pdf
Richard Powell
Several things. The first is doing the research. You get to learn so many new and exciting things. Sometimes it also triggers an inspiration to a new story. The second is to sit back and share a world you create.
Richard Powell
What is writer's block? As others describe it to me and from what I have experienced myself is to get to the next step in your writing. For me, when it comes to starting the next project it means I need to know more about my topic, so I research it until I feel the muse beating me over the head and kicking me in the ass. At that point, the words flow.
Another blockage is that I can't get to the next days flow of the story. I fight it in two ways. First I try to take breaks or end my day's writing at a high point. Where I literally have to drag myself away from the keyboard. Frustrating as hell, but when I return I am energized and my fingers can't shut up. The other technique I employ is to edit the previous sessions output at the beginning of each day. Get's me right back into the flow.
If other's have tactics for avoiding this please let me know. I and others would appreciate your wisdom
Another blockage is that I can't get to the next days flow of the story. I fight it in two ways. First I try to take breaks or end my day's writing at a high point. Where I literally have to drag myself away from the keyboard. Frustrating as hell, but when I return I am energized and my fingers can't shut up. The other technique I employ is to edit the previous sessions output at the beginning of each day. Get's me right back into the flow.
If other's have tactics for avoiding this please let me know. I and others would appreciate your wisdom
Richard Powell
For Gingerbread man it came from responses from the readers of Murder Club. The idea for Murder Club came to me at a meeting of my local writer's group. They were planning a retreat at an after meeting luncheon. One member talked about a mystery they were working on and the reactions of others hearing the conversation at other tables lit up a light in my head and a few month's later Murder Club rolled out.
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