Ask the Author: Dale E. Funk
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Dale E. Funk
Creating characters is very fun because when I write from their Point of View I feel like I have to take on their characteristics for a time. I like the mental challenge of becoming someone else for a while.
Dale E. Funk
I do something else until it goes away. Sometimes that takes a week or month or two.
Dale E. Funk
Don't write to get published or rich or famous. Don't write because a genre is popular, write something you want to write. Don't quit your day job. It's a lot easier to write if you have food on the table. Write because you like to read your own stories because it's possible that nobody else will read it.
Dale E. Funk
Currently I have two novels that are essentially completed but I haven't found the confidence to publish them so I am working on a self-help series based on my career as a Physical Therapist because I can write it with confidence.
Dale E. Funk
I decide on characters, then write scenes of their childhood, sometimes before creating the story line. Sometimes I model them after people I know and dream about how they would react in different scenarios. This seems to inspire plots in a book.
Dale E. Funk
My most recent books were inspired by my career in Physical Therapy. I decided that I wanted to make information regarding weight loss, exercise, injury prevention and treatment, and motivation available to people in a low cost self-help series so they could be more independent in their health management.
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