Ask the Author: Raymond Parish
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Raymond Parish
Our family lore includes the incomplete story of a distant relative from the early 1900s who own a tavern and race horses. He died under mysterious circumstances. Was he a gambler? Was he involved with a criminal element? Was her murdered? No one that I have spoken to has the details, leaving this as a tale that is made for speculation and possibilities.
Raymond Parish
Step away. Don't try so hard. Stop looking at the blank page. Change your energy to another activity. These are all adaptations of shifting away from obsessive thinking and ruminating in anxiety reduction. A relaxed mind is creative.
Raymond Parish
For me, writing is meditation...quiet, solitary, focused, sensory.
Raymond Parish
The best advice I heard came from Ridley Pearson, and I paraphrase, 'Thanks for coming to my workshop but you all could have stayed home to write. So don't say you don't have time to write.'
Raymond Parish
I'm working on the second book in the Hank Anderson series, tentatively titled, Higher Education. I started writing it as a prequel to Overnight Delivery. We'll see where that goes...
Raymond Parish
Life happens and ideas occasionally arrive. Only a few are more than passing thoughts. Those have become my non- fiction, and now my fiction, books. It's an exciting and truly fun, but uncertain process.
Raymond Parish
I imagined the convergence of my love for noir novels, my years of experience as a psychotherapist, and a location that I found inspiring. The characters kept appearing once I had a vision of Hank.
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