Ask the Author: Cory Swanson
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Cory Swanson
I keep writing, even if it’s bad. It’s all practice and it all serves to make me better. I have a lot of whiffed stories in my pocket. Stuff that didn’t work or maybe wasn’t a feasible idea in the first place. I see them all through to the end. I think I have two things I couldn’t find the gumption to finish. Other than that, I see it through to the end, even if it’s bad. Nobody but me ever has to see it.
Cory Swanson
Creation is an inexpressible joy. I get to make worlds, put people in them, play with ideas, and see how they all react. It’s also pretty cool when people read what I write and get as excited about what I’ve written as I do. I want people to blink a few times and wonder how I came up with it.
Cory Swanson
I have several projects in various stages of completion. I have a novel about an artists hammer that can carve through dimensions fully edited and out subbing. I’m currently workshopping my novel about inter-dimensional bugs with my writers group. I’m currently finishing up a bizarre novel inspired by a dream I had about reincarnation. I also have several short stories brewing in my head at any given time.
Cory Swanson
Get a music degree. That’s where I learned grit, perseverance, and, most importantly, it endowed me with a growth mindset. I knew at first that I wasn’t as good as I wanted to be, but I also knew that the only way to get there was to keep at it. I went to my writer’s group like I went to viola lessons, to push myself to get better. To learn from everyone around me. Truthfully, I’m not all the way there yet. My vision of myself as a writer is not realized yet, and it may never be. But I’ll definitely be trying.
Cory Swanson
The short answer is that I’m always writing. I get up at 5:00am before I go to work and write for an hour every day. In the evenings, after my kids go to sleep, I take care of the business end. I submit stories, do editing, and spread the word about my books. Good habits require three things, a cue, a routine, and a reward. My cue is waking up. My routine is writing. My reward is writing. It’s a beautiful system.
Cory Swanson
I was trying to find some good sci-fi movies to watch on Netflix, and I misread a synopsis. I thought it said that a virus was making people remember the future. I realized I’d misread it, but the thought stuck. What if you could remember the future? How would that be different from seeing the future like a clairvoyant? I let that thought sit for a couple weeks and it turned into Geminus.
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