Ask the Author: P.D. Ball
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P.D. Ball
By changing my environment. If I can't write, I shift focus to editing or I go to another room and write there. Or I go for a walk. Sometimes a beer will loosen up the words, but too much and you stop writing.
P.D. Ball
Living and breathing in the worlds you create.
P.D. Ball
Start now and don't listen to negative people. Readers want your stories. You're not writing for the negative people, you're writing for the people who will enjoy your words.
P.D. Ball
I'm finishing up book 2 in the series. It will be titled, "They still call me Princess Cayce."
P.D. Ball
By moving my body and staying away from the internet. Walking, exercising or showering, ideas all come to me unbidden. And through writing - writing itself is generative. It produces cascades of new thoughts. If you're trying to write something and you're stuck, try writing a different paragraph or scene and if that fails, go for a walk. If that still doesn't work, have a beer.
P.D. Ball
The first scene came to me as I was walking and I found it so compelling, I had to write it. After, the next scene demanded its time and so I wrote it and then the story appeared to me. I had little choice in the matter.
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