Ask the Author: Douglas Fergus
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Douglas Fergus
I've never had it. I'm bursting with ideas and have been for decades. I had a 'normal' day job for decades, but didn't start writing seriously until about 2 years ago, at age 58. I have fifty eight years of ideas inside me!
Douglas Fergus
Being able to afford the gigantic typewriter-shaped pool in the backyard of my single wide mobile home!
Douglas Fergus
Go to medical school instead! HA! Ba-dum-bump!!
Seriously, don't procrastinate! Do something instead of nothing. Find the style of writing that you love so much, you can hardly wait to do it.
Seriously, don't procrastinate! Do something instead of nothing. Find the style of writing that you love so much, you can hardly wait to do it.
Douglas Fergus
Another batch of short stories. My mind is bombarded all day with funny/quirky thoughts and ideas. I try write them down before I forget them. Then when I make time to write, I look at my list of ideas to get started.
Douglas Fergus
I'm almost always bursting with ideas that I want to use for a story! I never have had writers block, but not every story is great at first. Many times I need to scribble out the initial story, then revisit it in a day or two and then I usually see what I can do to make it better.
Douglas Fergus
Considering It's a book of 10 short stories, I got the ideas from all over the place, but all in my head. I typically start a story with only a fragment of an idea and then it just flows. Kind of like a musician who writes music by jamming and letting the sound flow.
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