Ask the Author: Morgan G. Farris
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Morgan G. Farris
I've been writing long enough to know that block is part of it. I've had seasons where I only wrote in spurts. Initially it bothered me. Now I've learned to embrace it. Life is life and it happens to us sometimes in the most inconvenient ways. In an ideal world, maybe we'd have forty hours a week to write as much as we want. But I'm a wife and I'm a mother and I'm a leader in my community and writing has to leave room for that. So if I carve out a day to write and then sit down and stare at a blank page for three hours, I don't chastise myself anymore. I know that story will come when it is supposed to. I'm not going to force it because when I do, the words are contrived and inauthentic. I wholeheartedly believe that it's a fallacy to make yourself write when you don't want to or don't know what to say. When I'm faced with that kind of block, I turn to reading. It refuels me and inspires those words.
Morgan G. Farris
Creating worlds into which I can get lost. I find myself living in the world of The Promised One most of the time. Perhaps that's a bit of psychosis (ha!) but I love getting lost in another world. I think I always have. In childhood, it's expected of us that we should make believe. In adulthood, we're supposed to duck our heads and clock in to our jobs. I've always bucked against the notion that grown ups can't have an imagination. I suppose writing has given me a more socially acceptable way to make believe. But in truth, if it weren't this, I'd find another way.
Morgan G. Farris
Read. Then write. Then read more. Then revise and write more. Don't think it needs to look like someone else. That someone already exists and they already write their way. Write your way and be unapologetic about it. Find your voice and then voice it.
Morgan G. Farris
I have finished the manuscript for book 2, which is going to the editor in the spring of 2018. I am writing a novella (which is book 2.5 in the series), and I'm almost done with book 3 of the series. So yeah... a lot.
Morgan G. Farris
I've been writing in various forms since I was a child. It just pours out of me, sometimes in a deluge, sometimes in a trickle. After having been writing for over 25 years, I've learned to submit to the creative process, no matter what it looks like. Maybe I'll sit down and write a whole novel in six weeks, or maybe I'll write it over the course of several years. Both are valid, both have their merits, and I no longer put pressure on myself to make it look a certain way.
Morgan G. Farris
I think the idea for this book series was birthed a long time ago. Even as kid, I would ponder huge concepts, and somewhere in there, I wondered why God would make such a big universe and only put life on earth. Maybe he did, maybe he didn't. But if there is other life out there, did he redeem them, too? Did he send a savior to them? The Promised One is an allegory of the messiah—it's a conceptual færytale, a fantasy based on the idea of what God might look like to another people, another place, another world.
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