Ask the Author: Christopher J. Burke
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Christopher J. Burke
The inspiration comes from many places. Sometimes thoughts occur to me while I'm taking long walks around Brooklyn. If I can still remember those thoughts by the time I get home, I think that I might be onto something. Inspiration can come from things I've read online or even from other stories that I enjoyed even though they didn't go in a direction that I would've like it to have gone.
My mind is a wild place that I'll never full understand.
My mind is a wild place that I'll never full understand.
Christopher J. Burke
I'd say the adulation of the masses of adoring fans ... but honestly it's really cool meeting the one or two people at a convention who know who I am and read what I've written.
Christopher J. Burke
I edit stuff I've already written, particularly things that I wrote as writing exercises and aren't likely to be published. Seeing my older creativity, or sometimes just identifying the lack of it in some paragraph or two, can fire you up.
Christopher J. Burke
When I was very young, things would go missing in my room and in my house. Now there isn't much of a mystery, you might say, and these things probably just wandered off with one of my many older siblings.
But you know that the house I grew up in was haunted, right? I mean, the dog would never go into the basement willingly.
Oh, and the dog sometimes carried stuff off, too. But she never ate my homework.
But you know that the house I grew up in was haunted, right? I mean, the dog would never go into the basement willingly.
Oh, and the dog sometimes carried stuff off, too. But she never ate my homework.
Christopher J. Burke
The idea came from the editor. I offered a couple of stories, which had won a competition but hadn't been published, as bonus stories for a Kickstarter campaign.
She countered with an anthology of my previous winning entries along with the two unprinted, if I wrote four or five more pieces. She suggested themes, of which I used a couple, but I also harvested themes from past competitions I hadn't won (or entered).
She countered with an anthology of my previous winning entries along with the two unprinted, if I wrote four or five more pieces. She suggested themes, of which I used a couple, but I also harvested themes from past competitions I hadn't won (or entered).
Christopher J. Burke
I had a sanity check. It bounced.
Christopher J. Burke
Taking old scenes, notes and drafts written over a number of years, and trying to turn some of them into something worth publishing
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