Ask the Author: Steve Neiman
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Steve Neiman
Find someone who will just keep encouraging you, especially on those days when writing just doesn't seem worth it.
Steve Neiman
I wrote a book.
No one read it.
No one read it.
Steve Neiman
Anne McCaffrey's Pern.
First I'd just like to see the dragons, but then I'd really like to go to the Southern Continent and see the long lost technology get figured out.
Can you imagine someone trying to figure out ctrl+alt+del all by themselves? You could look like a genius!
First I'd just like to see the dragons, but then I'd really like to go to the Southern Continent and see the long lost technology get figured out.
Can you imagine someone trying to figure out ctrl+alt+del all by themselves? You could look like a genius!
Steve Neiman
There's a lot of other things writer's need to do beside write. When I'm in the productive groove, I just write fast and furious. When I'm not in that groove, I do things like write this answer.
Steve Neiman
Freedom to develop ideas, push them, see if they hold together.
Steve Neiman
So my first book, A Young Devil's Prayer, introduced some ideas about how God's grace could even reach into Hell to forgive and save souls.
But I didn't flesh out that. And I really didn't do much with Heaven. Oh, and there are specific plot questions from volume one that are yet to be answered.
So all of those thigs are feeding into the next Sinmonger story.
But I didn't flesh out that. And I really didn't do much with Heaven. Oh, and there are specific plot questions from volume one that are yet to be answered.
So all of those thigs are feeding into the next Sinmonger story.
Steve Neiman
I have a lot of half-baked ideas that are just stored away. And then something happens in my life or in the world in general, and one of those ideas becomes really important to me.
I have a couple of core people I use to help flesh out the different dimensions of the ideas and the characters.
I have a couple of core people I use to help flesh out the different dimensions of the ideas and the characters.
Steve Neiman
I started with the idea of using Hell as a laboratory to question and test the way society is designed. So there's a scene about Mudsill Theory that was one of the earliest scenes I wrote. From there it just grew as the two characters explored issues of prejudice and romance.
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