Ask the Author: R.M. Taylor
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R.M. Taylor
I switch book, I usually write two or even three alongside each other, concentrating on one. If I hit a wall I skip forward and write a future chapter, or I go back and edit the past chapters. If this isn't working, I switch to planning the other books, or writing characters. I even write chapters in the other books. Just keep writing, whatever I do I keep writing.
R.M. Taylor
No one can tell me what the world I am building should look like. It is my world, my characters, my ideas, and I drive the story and decide the direction. It is wonderful, like driving somewhere but you get to decide what the world outside the window looks like.
R.M. Taylor
Keep writing, if it feels awkward or you feel embarrassed by what you are writing it's just self-consciousness. You will find your confidence eventually, it just takes practice. It's like a muscle, it only builds and gets stronger if you keep exercising. Keep writing and imagining and if you hit a block, put that chapter down for a while and skip forward to write another, or go back and edit a previous one. Anything to keep your mind ticking while it generates more ideas.
R.M. Taylor
Finishing the second book in The Hadley Caro Series, Landon, and planning the third, Chizeck. They're developing alongside each other, some things that start in Landon will end or be continued in Chizeck.
R.M. Taylor
I have a very active imagination, and usually, it is when I watch or read something and I think "I would have done it this way" and imagine how I would have ended the story or done it differently. Sometimes this morphs into a whole new scenario or world, it just blooms. It's like a jigsaw puzzle, I design one piece and then the others gradually fall into place.
R.M. Taylor
The character Lucrezia has been kicking about in my mind for years, to be honest, and she began to develop in response to other characters I imagined. When creating other characters I kept thinking back to her and thought Lucrezia would do it like that, or she would think this or say that. She kept popping up in my mind, and so I began toying with ideas of how to build a story for her. Aris came next, his story was inspired by the basic tenets of vampirism, the bloodlust, the intensity, the brooding. Then, his coven, and the story was patched together until I felt I had a good solid foundation to build the series on. I knew it would be a series, the characters deserve their own voice along the journey. Each book will blend the character's experiences and past with the present story, so each book continues where the last finished, but from the person's individual perspective.
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