Ask the Author: Derrick Burke
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Derrick Burke
It has been said a thousand times by tousands of authors. Write every single day. Don't know what to write? Cool, ask youself what you personally would want to do in whatever situation you have written down. Or not sure where to go next and you are completely stumped? Start writing something else. Begin a new book. Create a character from scratch and figure out what that character would be like as a person, as well as how they got to be where they are. I've done this and either created a new book for that character, or I added them to my current story and was able to move it forward from there.
The point is to keep going.
The point is to keep going.
Derrick Burke
My dreams literally become reality and I get to share them with the world instead of just my partner who has to put up with me rehashing some of the vividly real dreams I get. Some dreams take hours to retell the story, and those are the ones I make sure I write down, as they are pretty interesting, to say the least.
Derrick Burke
Keep writing every single day, don't stop. The minute you stop because you don't feel like writing, you'll find that a year or more might have passed since you last put thoughts on paper and you'll be left wondering, "What happened?"
Don't stop.
Don't stop.
Derrick Burke
I'm currently working on four separate books in separate series's, however my maine focus is book 4 of Dream Stream Reality.
Derrick Burke
I think reading all of David Gemmell's books from a primary school age really kicked off my imagination. As well as Pokemon, funnily enough, as I started writing a pokemon story about real life animals at a zoo and them breaking out using elemental abilities. It was in the first year pokemon came out, so quite a while ago now.
It was the spark that fuelled the fire when my English teacher in year 7 said we had to write a short story. I handed in a 2000 word story when it was supposed to be a max of 500 words... the reactions of all my fellow students reading it was hilarious, especially because they thought I was a mild tempered student who was kind of friends with a lot of people, but really only had a couple solid friendships.
Second to that, I wrote about a 6 on 1 fight scene in a medieval fantasy setting similar to waylander or scillgannon - including the blood, gore and deaths of those 6 assailants. Not sure if they thought I would turn out to be someone in need of being locked up or if they thought I was cool. Probably the former, to be honest.
Since then, I've been writing plotlines and short stories for various books and have several on the go at once.
It was the spark that fuelled the fire when my English teacher in year 7 said we had to write a short story. I handed in a 2000 word story when it was supposed to be a max of 500 words... the reactions of all my fellow students reading it was hilarious, especially because they thought I was a mild tempered student who was kind of friends with a lot of people, but really only had a couple solid friendships.
Second to that, I wrote about a 6 on 1 fight scene in a medieval fantasy setting similar to waylander or scillgannon - including the blood, gore and deaths of those 6 assailants. Not sure if they thought I would turn out to be someone in need of being locked up or if they thought I was cool. Probably the former, to be honest.
Since then, I've been writing plotlines and short stories for various books and have several on the go at once.
Derrick Burke
Simply put, I had a dream about a specific few scenes in book 1. In book 1, it was technically the second major boss fight, while book 2 was a scene closer to the end.
Aside from that, I was standing on a as a security guard to the nightclub I supervised when I struck up a conversation with my second in command and started chatting to him about it. He said I should write a book about it, so I did. I also spoke with some other really good mates and had each of them make a character for me to put into the book.
It just snowballed from there.
Aside from that, I was standing on a as a security guard to the nightclub I supervised when I struck up a conversation with my second in command and started chatting to him about it. He said I should write a book about it, so I did. I also spoke with some other really good mates and had each of them make a character for me to put into the book.
It just snowballed from there.
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