Ask the Author: Brian Cave
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Brian Cave
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Brian Cave
Currently, I'm writing the sequel to Old School Evil while also updating my Old School Evil blog where I talk about the cartoons and their villains that inspired my to write my novels.
I also recently bought a 3D printer and I'm messing around with trying to print out my first action figure. It's going incredibly slow!
I also recently bought a 3D printer and I'm messing around with trying to print out my first action figure. It's going incredibly slow!
Brian Cave
Find out what writing style fits you the best. I've tried writing outlines for so many stories before but found out I wasn't fleshing out the story nearly as much as I wanted to. It wasn't until I wrote the first draft of Old School Evil where I discovered I was a pantser, where I wrote without an outline and just let my writing wherever it took me. I'm much more comfortable staying away from an outline for the first draft and then adding stuff in after I have a complete story.
Brian Cave
For me, it's creating a whole new world with different rules than the one I live in. For Old School Evil, I was able to come up with a secret world of heroes and villains that were fighting across the world, each of them incorporating mystical powers or impossible tech. For another story, you could have a magic system that controls every aspect of reality. There's no limit to the changes you could make, either miniscule impossible to find differences from our world or remaking the entire history or reality of the entire world.
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