Ask the Author: PF Walsh
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PF Walsh
Celestial intervention. At least, I think so. It all just drops into my head, ideas, names, plots. Even the title of my last book was settled on as I began to write the first chapter.
PF Walsh
A constant opportunity to exercise the boundaries of my imagination.
PF Walsh
This morning, I went into my file cabinet. All my tax deduction records are missing!
PF Walsh
Multiple characters works for me. They should be diverse. When I complete a scene of one character, I ask myself, what is Character X doing, while all that was going on? I am blessed that writer's block rarely happens to me, so maybe that advice is simplistic, but it can work.
PF Walsh
Desire is one thing, doing is another. It may sound simple, but just sit down at the keyboard and write a scene about anything. Anything at all, even if it has no relevance to the story you have in mind. Getting going is the key, even if what you write is bad. If it is bad, you can see that, and now have a task to fix it. It should lead you to other roads of thought and action.
PF Walsh
Sequel to the Velvet Abbey, and the last two chapters of The Council of Hhearn book three of the trilogy
PF Walsh
Perhaps I am not the usual writer who constructs a book in outline. I just start writing and look forward to see what happens. I have no idea how the book ends when I start. I suspect writing instructors would frown.
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