Ask the Author: Brian Gallagher
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Brian Gallagher
I normally don't have too many problems with writer's block, but when I do, I usually go back and read the original notes I made, to see if anything there can jog something loose, so to speak.
Brian Gallagher
No dress code, easy commute... and plucking characters, worlds and ideas out of your head and putting them into your readers' heads, ideally in a compelling manner.
Brian Gallagher
I believe the two most important things for writers to develop is a routine, and their voice. The voice certainly doesn't come right away, but the more you stick to your routine (whatever it may be, an hour a night, two), the more you write, and the more you write, the more you develop your voice.
Brian Gallagher
Aside from my job as a freelance entertainment journalist (IGN, Screen Rant), I am also a screenwriter, with 19 scripts under my belt. Now that the book is published, I am going to start prepping my first ever screenplay adaptation. The fine Twitter writers from Writer's Accountability (#WRAC18) came up with an Adaptation Challenge, where each screenwriter would choose a work in the public domain to adapt. I chose The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, and I'll start re-reading that (for the first time in over 20 years, or so) and taking notes to prep for adapting it. It should be exciting!
Brian Gallagher
My writing process has gone far beyond being inspired to write, it just becomes part of my day. When I'm in writing mode, I have a routine down that I follow every day, and when it's time to write, it's just time to write, and I write. Still... I don't exactly believe in the maxim that you need to write every day. I wrote five scripts in the first five months of this year... but I have been on a writing hiatus for almost four months now, due to getting the book ready for publication, and other life hurdles, but I'm looking forward to getting back in that writing saddle, so to speak.
Brian Gallagher
I created the format for this book about 13 years ago, with another non-fiction memoir I wrote entitled Doing Time in the Valley, which chronicled my 12-year stint in and out of college at Winona State University. Nine months after I finished that book, I got the job that brought me out to Los Angeles. Now I'm using the same "present/past" hybrid format I used with that book to chronicle my decade in L.A.
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