Ask the Author: Eddie Louise
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Eddie Louise
Writer's block appears for me in two circumstances:
1) When I haven't spent enough time percolating - the ideas are not yet ripe - if this is the case I need to read more, or watch good TV or film, or take a walk - anything to get the juices flowing. I set a time limit to these activities to ensure percolation does not become procrastination.
2) When I have written a problem into the MS - the first thing I do when I feel blocked is to review the story beats thus far - often I have put a foot wrong and if I correct that error, the story will flow once again. These are times when I let plot overwrite character or when I let a character's desires shape the plot (NOT killing XYZ even though the story needs it because my character {me} LOVES XYZ so much.) Once I find and fix that problem things will get going for me again.
1) When I haven't spent enough time percolating - the ideas are not yet ripe - if this is the case I need to read more, or watch good TV or film, or take a walk - anything to get the juices flowing. I set a time limit to these activities to ensure percolation does not become procrastination.
2) When I have written a problem into the MS - the first thing I do when I feel blocked is to review the story beats thus far - often I have put a foot wrong and if I correct that error, the story will flow once again. These are times when I let plot overwrite character or when I let a character's desires shape the plot (NOT killing XYZ even though the story needs it because my character {me} LOVES XYZ so much.) Once I find and fix that problem things will get going for me again.
Eddie Louise
Wearing pajamas all day!
Eddie Louise
The Four 'R's - Read/Write/Read/Write.
Read widely and write in a variety of styles. Read closely and write compactly. Read expansively and write wildly. Are you sensing a pattern here?
Read widely and write in a variety of styles. Read closely and write compactly. Read expansively and write wildly. Are you sensing a pattern here?
Eddie Louise
Book Two of The Tales of Sage and Savant as well as the Season Two dual episode finale for the podcast.
Eddie Louise
Unanswered questions are the great goad in my life - I have to KNOW things. I try and end each day of writing with at least one unanswered question that nags at me until I come back to write and answer it.
Eddie Louise
In a dream. Most of my ideas come as dreams first - incomplete snatches of story that I must write so I will know how things work out.
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