Ask the Author: Jason Abofsky
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Jason Abofsky
I often find that writer's block is the brain telling you something is wrong with what you're looking at or trying to write. You need to look away and work on something else or do something else until your brain can process the data and get back to you.
Jason Abofsky
When your story no longer looks like a drunken monkey banged on a typewriter, it gives a deep sense of pride and accomplishment for the perseverance and dedication to doing it right and not just throwing words on a paper and calling it a book.
Jason Abofsky
Use the scene-sequel template. Beat it into your head again and again.
I won't just say show don't tell because what does that mean to anybody who doesn't already know. So let me say when you're starting out, adjectives and adverbs are bad. Use nouns and verbs to describe those same things instead.
I won't just say show don't tell because what does that mean to anybody who doesn't already know. So let me say when you're starting out, adjectives and adverbs are bad. Use nouns and verbs to describe those same things instead.
Jason Abofsky
Celoven: Dark Horizon
Jason Abofsky
I write the skeleton of the story I want to tell, then I connect the tissues together that hold the story in place, then I cover the skin in detailed descriptions. Then I put some clothes on that naked story. Then I raise the body up into the lightning storm and hope lightning strikes and brings my creation to life.
Jason Abofsky
This is a top secret question. The answer lies in inspiration stemming from a single episode of a cartoon and a story I wrote transforming it into something grander.
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