Ask the Author: W. Scott
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W. Scott
right now i am reading The Bones of Who We Are by a fellow online friend, CL Walters. i do not want to give away too much. but once this book is officially released, i implore EVERYONE to pick up a copy. she has a talent for both breaking and mending your heart all in one sitting. also i am reading The Last Magician by Lisa Maxwell. and any poetry that i can get my hands on =)
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as cliche as it would sounds, the first fictional world that i would love to visit would have to be Hogwarts. and i think that this is my first choice due to the fact that Hogwarts was the first place that i absolutely loved falling in love with. i loved the atmosphere and the danger. i am kind of crazy that way i suppose lol.
W. Scott
I free write. I love this exercise because I know that it doesn't have to make sense. I can just write whatever I'm thinking about and feel okay. If that doesn't work, I either go for a drive or a walk.
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The therapy that I feel when I write. I have a mind that never turns off. I am always thinking, I am always in my head. And sometimes this can be a bad thing. With writing, I can get out what is constantly inside of me.
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Always keep writing, even if you think no one is listening. Someone always is.
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Since 2011, I have been working on a novel series. I am on the third book. I've shopped the series around a few years ago but it has not been picked up just yet. Hopefully, in time, it will be. I am also working on the second book in my Bottled Messages series. This will be the sequel to my Post-its and Parchment book.
W. Scott
I had just arrived back home from a performing gig in Hershey PA. My contract was done and my mind began the recurring questions of "what now? what's next?" While in Hershey, I explored my love of writing again. Since the age of ten, I had always been writing something; poems (which weren't any good), lyrics, short stories, novellas, novels, etc. But while doing my performing gig, I came across the poems of Rupi Kaur and Amanda Lovelace. A spark was lit. I wanted to reach other's with my words as well just as Ms. Kaur and Ms. Lovelace had done. I remembered these small quotes that I would post on sticky-notes in my bathroom to encourage myself throughout the day and thought, this is something that I can do.
W. Scott
I remembered these small quotes that I would post on sticky-notes in my bathroom to encourage myself throughout the day and thought, this is something that I can do. There were messages about myself that I've kept hidden for so long. I needed them to come out. So I began to write small snippets of encouraging poems that I could find on the bathroom mirror. But there were longer pieces as well. I began to write letters to my younger self, but they were poetic; pieces on healing and heartbreak, survival and hope. I kept writing and realized that I might have something here. The pieces work as sort of a yin and yang, young and old, light and dark concept. I was talking to my present self but also my younger self. Once I had a handful poems, I realized that these weren't just for myself. I wondered if anyone would read them and find healing in them. I subtitled my book, Bottled Messages, because this was everything that I had kept inside for so long. But also because I kept envisioning how way back in the day, people would send messages in a bottle across rivers in hope that someone would find them. This, too, has been my hope.
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