Ask the Author: Jason Liegois
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Jason Liegois
I haven't had to deal with it recently, but I usually read or watch other people's stories and get inspired by them.
Jason Liegois
Here's a few:
* Write consistently, even if you don't write that much.
* Have a goal in mind, whether it's the message you want to put across or telling a great story with cool characters.
* Revising is king, and revising is your friend.
* Write consistently, even if you don't write that much.
* Have a goal in mind, whether it's the message you want to put across or telling a great story with cool characters.
* Revising is king, and revising is your friend.
Jason Liegois
I read other people's stories and I want to tell something as good if I like it or better if I don't.
Jason Liegois
Not to spoil too much, but among some of the works in progress include a drama about a soccer player from the US, a crime drama (essentially), and a historical fiction piece about rock in the 1980's, among some other items. All of them are in various forms of development.
Jason Liegois
Telling cool stories that can get people's interest.
Jason Liegois
I first got the hint of an idea a little over eight years ago. Inspired by an incident I had read about in college regarding the 1993 ownership fight over the New York Post that eventually wound up with the staff in open revolt, I began to wonder how a similar incident might unfold at a fictional newspaper in Chicago (a town that has seen its own share of newspapers with shaky financial situations). How might it happen as the Great Recession of 2008 unfolded, with the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan at their peaks?
Also, might this experience prompt one newspaper journalist to create a new way of practicing his profession, a new outlook that's been needed more as the years have passed? (Basically, what if a competent journalist who cared about the craft started a much more effective version of Wikileaks?)
Once you start asking the questions, the scenarios start playing out, and you start playing with the scenarios to see what happens.
Also, might this experience prompt one newspaper journalist to create a new way of practicing his profession, a new outlook that's been needed more as the years have passed? (Basically, what if a competent journalist who cared about the craft started a much more effective version of Wikileaks?)
Once you start asking the questions, the scenarios start playing out, and you start playing with the scenarios to see what happens.
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