Ask the Author: Sam Accardi
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Sam Accardi
It's no one thing. Sometimes it's music, sometimes it's just a headspace I go to.
Sometimes I just zone out for an hour in the car and I've constructed some plot line, or character, or scene in my head to write down later.
Sometimes I just zone out for an hour in the car and I've constructed some plot line, or character, or scene in my head to write down later.
Sam Accardi
The second book of the Chronicles of Enayra series: Phantoms.
Sam Accardi
This is going to sound incredibly cliche but write.
Just write. Write anything. Write and then reread it, and get as many beta readers as you can. Write until you're happy with it.
Once the book is written, editing is a piece of cake :p but the hardest part is writing.
Just write. Write anything. Write and then reread it, and get as many beta readers as you can. Write until you're happy with it.
Once the book is written, editing is a piece of cake :p but the hardest part is writing.
Sam Accardi
Getting to craft this vast, massive worlds and lores, and filling them with creatures and folklore and history, and seeing this fabric of culture and history come to life within them.
Sam Accardi
I take a Me day. My writer's block is often linked with my mental health, so I do what I have to do to recharge. Hike, drive, walk, music, gaming, watch movies, rest, nap, spend time with my wife.
Whatever I have to do to recharge and get myself back in the writing headspace.
Whatever I have to do to recharge and get myself back in the writing headspace.
Sam Accardi
If my own world doesn't count, then I'd say Alagaësia.
Dragons? Dwarves? Cool magic? Elves? I could potentially be friends with a dragon?
Count me in!
Dragons? Dwarves? Cool magic? Elves? I could potentially be friends with a dragon?
Count me in!
Sam Accardi
Honestly, I don't know. My book backlog is like my game backlog. It depends mostly on what I feel like at the time.
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