Ask the Author: T.A. Ward
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T.A. Ward
The partially eaten éclair floated above the rim of a crowded trash can. A man, seeing that the éclair was good for food and pleasing to the eye, retrieved it for his dessert.
T.A. Ward
An endless excuse to drink coffee and look disheveled.
T.A. Ward
Hopefully no author would begin a story without knowing its end first, but particular scenes can be a consistent source of writer's block. For me, if writing does not come naturally for a scene or section of the book, I take an entire day off and try again tomorrow. The mind needs space to breathe, to take in new sights, sounds, emotions, and conversations. The actual world is the true space for inspiration, and so more time in that world is the only sure remedy for me.
T.A. Ward
This, I think, is the hardest question for authors in my genre to answer. "How did you, a somewhat functioning adult in society, concoct a world of horror? Where did it come from?" Stephen King says that his stories often begin around one scene, a single picture in his mind. The same was true of this story, a flash of a bomb, a picture of its repercussions. As with all thrilling, horrific stories, the thread that binds it together is a woven one, where history, fantasy, and pain meet. To write dark, dark stories, we need little more than to survey our dark, dark world.
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