Ask the Author: Em Rogers
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Em Rogers
I get inspiration and guidance by reading and sometimes even re-reading my favorite authors. I read a lot! Examining the work for a second time gives me a chance to focus on it's rhythm and structure, as well as the sounds of the written words. Understanding the style and structure, the voice of my favorites, gives me confidence to push boundaries and to sometimes to integrate those ideas into my own work.
Em Rogers
I have been involved in film and television creation as a Director for many years. In cinema almost everything on camera has to be brought in front of the lens, to be physically present. This is expensive, labor intensive and often leads to creative compromise. As a writer, I have complete control of my imagination, and can dream up even the most expensive scenes with no thought for production at all. It's very freeing to have total creative control.
Em Rogers
Writing is like running, it gets easier with practice. One way I like to practice and break a block is to write something for myself only. A memoir, a poem, an angry letter, it doesn't really matter what it is. It feels good to get it off my mind and I can move on, and at the same time exercises my writing muscles.
Another good way of breaking writer's block is to create an outline of your story and then take a non-linear approach to writing it. Scrivener is very good for this in the way it allows you to easily access the chapters from a side bar.
Another good way of breaking writer's block is to create an outline of your story and then take a non-linear approach to writing it. Scrivener is very good for this in the way it allows you to easily access the chapters from a side bar.
Em Rogers
I am currently working on several stories, including a sequel to "The Truth Virus", exploring the next chapter of Human/Machine evolution, "Navigating Safeway's Quantum Dynamics", a fictional story about multi-dimensional existence, as well as an exploration of the mass subconscious entitled, "Pantheon of the New Gods." I like to work on a few things at once, and simply go to what I feel like working on on any given day.
Em Rogers
Never waste the time of your audience by writing unnecessary details and story line. Respect their time and effort. as well as their own imagination, and they will enjoy your book much more.
Em Rogers
Futurists like Ray Kurzweil said that no one could imagine the world after the singularity, that moment when artificial intelligence explodes and transforms technology. I thought that it was a challenge to the Human imagination, so I rose to the challenge and wrote The Truth Virus. I still hold out hope that a symbiotic and mutually beneficial relationship between Man and Machine can exist. A state I refer to as cyberbiosis.
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