Ask the Author: Frank Nemecek
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Frank Nemecek
Read a lot. Read the classics. Read complete trash. Read anything by Mark Twain. Read newspapers and magazines. Read anything and everything you can get your hands on in your genre. Read more from Mark Twain.
T.S. Elliot once opined, "good writers borrow, great writers steal." While this is definitely exagerration, it does serve as a reminder that reading can trigger an idea in your head; an idea that will eventually become your first novel.
T.S. Elliot once opined, "good writers borrow, great writers steal." While this is definitely exagerration, it does serve as a reminder that reading can trigger an idea in your head; an idea that will eventually become your first novel.
Frank Nemecek
Hearing complete strangers talk about my work and/or reading their reviews online. Whether they love or hate my work, I get a weird thrill from hearing people talk about it.
Frank Nemecek
I take a break and go for a long walk. This usually solves it for me.
If that doesn't work, there's a book that I bought more than a decade ago called "The Writer's Block" by Jason Rekulak. It has a bunch of random ideas to jump start one's creativity. I'll do a couple of them and that's always worked for me.
If that doesn't work, there's a book that I bought more than a decade ago called "The Writer's Block" by Jason Rekulak. It has a bunch of random ideas to jump start one's creativity. I'll do a couple of them and that's always worked for me.
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