Ask the Author: Frank Wayne
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Frank Wayne
I am fortunate because I'm retired, so have lots of time. If something isn't working, if I don't have a plot yet, if I am tired, I don't write. (Actually, lack of plot never has stopped me from writing.)
I guess what I'm saying is there is no pressure on me to write. So, writer's block? . . . I just go away and do something else, let my mind go, try writing poetry, try writing about any little thing that probably doesn't have anything to do with my current writing project, or, I go work on my boat.
I guess what I'm saying is there is no pressure on me to write. So, writer's block? . . . I just go away and do something else, let my mind go, try writing poetry, try writing about any little thing that probably doesn't have anything to do with my current writing project, or, I go work on my boat.
Frank Wayne
I am fortunate because I'm retired, so have lots of time. If something isn't working, if I don't have a plot yet, if I am tired, I don't write. (Actually, lack of plot never has stopped me from writing.)
I guess what I'm saying is there is no pressure on me to write. So, writer's block? . . . I just go away and do something else, let my mind go, try writing poetry, try writing about any little thing that probably doesn't have anything to do with my current writing project, or, I go work on my boat.
I guess what I'm saying is there is no pressure on me to write. So, writer's block? . . . I just go away and do something else, let my mind go, try writing poetry, try writing about any little thing that probably doesn't have anything to do with my current writing project, or, I go work on my boat.
Frank Wayne
Well, if your into art, then as a writer, you're among the artists of the world. I take pride in the fact that I am apart of that fraternity. Also, it is great to read your work to a group of people, and surprisingly, it resonates with your audience. Then you know you have created something worthwhile.
I also like to examine how writing, painting, and all the other arts reflect off each other. Often, I think of how music affects my writing, or how painting can possibly affect my writing. In terms of imagery, the study of great painters in terms of composition can add something to what you write. I find this fascinating.
I also like to examine how writing, painting, and all the other arts reflect off each other. Often, I think of how music affects my writing, or how painting can possibly affect my writing. In terms of imagery, the study of great painters in terms of composition can add something to what you write. I find this fascinating.
Frank Wayne
You have to make time to write. You have to be willing to turn off the TV, sit your ass down, and do it. Do it because you feel like it. Engage all your senses, read other classic authors, and learn to write poetry. Yes, poetry, because the writing of poetry is one of the best tools in the writer's toolbox. Poetry will enable your senses (in terms of how words affect us), and you need all your senses to get at the stuff all writers need. Join like-minded people, but above all, write whatever and how you want to write.
Frank Wayne
You have to make time to write. You have to be willing to turn off the TV, sit your ass down, and do it. Do it because you feel like it. Engage all your senses, read other classic authors, and learn to write poetry. Yes, poetry, because the writing of poetry is one of the best tools in the writer's toolbox. Poetry will enable your senses (in terms of how words affect us), and you need all your senses to get at the stuff all writers need. Join like-minded people, but above all, write whatever and how you want to write.
Frank Wayne
My latest creation is a novel about a WW II bride who comes over from England to marry and settle in the small town of Gibson's Landing, Canada. Like "The Cumberland Tales", it will be a work of fiction that entails some magic realism, but unlike my last novel, this setting is a small homestead within the heavily forested area of that area. It's setting, in terms of time, is the depression years.
Frank Wayne
My latest creation is a novel about a WW II bride who comes over from England to marry and settle in the small town of Gibson's Landing, Canada. Like "The Cumberland Tales", it will be a work of fiction that entails some magic realism, but unlike my last novel, this setting is a small homestead within the heavily forested area of that area. It's setting, in terms of time, is the depression years.
Frank Wayne
I am not driven to write, but I do feel obligated to write certain stories. In terms of inspiration, I get that from the many writers I have studied and read over the years. There are two writers who always inspire me: John Keats and William Blake. Each has a quote that I find enlightening and encouraging. Well, probably the former is enlightening; the latter encouraging. To paraphrase Keats: That which is creative, must itself create; and Blake: Mine is not to reason and compare, mine is to create. These two quotes keep me going, one out of pure exploration, and the other out of shear happy creation.
Frank Wayne
Ok, so the idea for my first book came from a single image from my childhood. You see, in my hometown of Cumberland there was a Chinatown. In this town lived Sam Yik, an old Chinese gentleman who used to trek around town with his cart of homegrown vegetables. Everyone knew he had the best veggies around. I remember my mother running out to Sam Yik and buying this huge head of lettuce. From this single image, grew a book of 50,000 words.
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