Ask the Author: Sylvia Beckett Davidson
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Sylvia Beckett Davidson
I'm working on several book projects at the moment and all will be revealed once I've moved into the second draft phase. Three of those works are urban fantasy novels that share the same setting and run almost linearly with one another - note, they aren't meant to be read linearly though, but I will indicate when the time comes. World building so far has been fun, and I'm teaching myself a lot about the process too.
I'm working on another self-published collection which will be another essay collection with a narrative about a long distance relationship and the narrators opinions on love itself.
Another novel is set in a dystopian world where everyone is so self-segregated that they live in hubs across the planet. It's still in very early development so I can't say much at the moment about it. The last but not least is a novel I've been working on for years and years. It's an immigration story about a young woman who is setting up a new life in a new metropolitan city and learning more about who she is and how her own words can carve new experiences for her.
That's all for now and I'd say I'm full at the moment. Any new ideas I will jot down in my writing journals and bury deep in my mind for excavation later.
I'm working on another self-published collection which will be another essay collection with a narrative about a long distance relationship and the narrators opinions on love itself.
Another novel is set in a dystopian world where everyone is so self-segregated that they live in hubs across the planet. It's still in very early development so I can't say much at the moment about it. The last but not least is a novel I've been working on for years and years. It's an immigration story about a young woman who is setting up a new life in a new metropolitan city and learning more about who she is and how her own words can carve new experiences for her.
That's all for now and I'd say I'm full at the moment. Any new ideas I will jot down in my writing journals and bury deep in my mind for excavation later.
Sylvia Beckett Davidson
Oooh, at this moment in time, the whole process from writing and editing ,to watching a close friend read your chapters and trying to guess their facial expressions, to research and eyeing up graphic designers for future commissions. Maybe in future, when I'm more mature and refined, I can be more defined and definite with my answer.
Sylvia Beckett Davidson
No idea, it just comes and goes like the wind. If I'm ready in those moments with a pen and notebook, or my phone, I can jot down ideas or write a whole scene. It just comes out of nowhere.
Sylvia Beckett Davidson
The thing that works for me, especially when working on a laptop/iPad, is to print out the last chapter I was working on. Then I sit down and read through the whole thing imagining I'm doing a reading in a dimly lit bookstore for people eager to know about my story. I have to imagine and imagine hard - why? Once you tap back into your imagination, and edit that one chapter (only spelling and grammar, sentence structure maybe), I'm able to take one step at a time to get back on track.
That won't work for everyone, but I treat the symptoms first and everything else falls away.
That won't work for everyone, but I treat the symptoms first and everything else falls away.
Sylvia Beckett Davidson
At this stage in my life, not much, other than write, write, and write some more. Also, tea/coffee is amazing.
But for the wordsmiths out there, sub to a word a day notification or email list.
But for the wordsmiths out there, sub to a word a day notification or email list.
Sylvia Beckett Davidson
My co-author contacted me about it knowing I was passionate about writing all sorts of things, especially mental health and the occult world. He was, and is, someone who watched me grow as a blogger and vlogger for some time. This was a nice surprise actually, having someone think positively about my writing and style. He and I also happen to be practitioners of alternative spiritual movements, and I jumped at the chance to write with him.
The occult is a subject most people don't know a great deal about, especially with the stereotypes that are well and truly glued to our persona, but for those who have found themselves to be creative will have these moments of self-questioning, a need for self-care, a need to question their existence within the universe, and most of the time we battle mental health issues. For my co-author and myself it was our individual experiences with spirituality that gave us good ground to understand our mental health challenges and work with them, in different ways, to make ourselves better, and find the confidence to seek professional and spiritual help. This book briefly maps how we did that, and why mental health is meant to be something everyone should be discussing.
If someone had told me that I would publish a book this soon I wouldn't have believed them. It's been an amazing process! I must hurry up with my fiction.
The occult is a subject most people don't know a great deal about, especially with the stereotypes that are well and truly glued to our persona, but for those who have found themselves to be creative will have these moments of self-questioning, a need for self-care, a need to question their existence within the universe, and most of the time we battle mental health issues. For my co-author and myself it was our individual experiences with spirituality that gave us good ground to understand our mental health challenges and work with them, in different ways, to make ourselves better, and find the confidence to seek professional and spiritual help. This book briefly maps how we did that, and why mental health is meant to be something everyone should be discussing.
If someone had told me that I would publish a book this soon I wouldn't have believed them. It's been an amazing process! I must hurry up with my fiction.
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