Ask the Author: Daniel Meyer
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Daniel Meyer
It's the early 1900s.
One morning, my umpteenth great-grandfather wakes up early, before everyone else, walks out of his house, and disappears. No one could turn up any trace of him.
A year later, he shows back up. He has no memory of anything that happened while he was gone. He came back on the anniversary of the day he disappeared.
One morning, my umpteenth great-grandfather wakes up early, before everyone else, walks out of his house, and disappears. No one could turn up any trace of him.
A year later, he shows back up. He has no memory of anything that happened while he was gone. He came back on the anniversary of the day he disappeared.
Daniel Meyer
Probably when you finally write scenes that you've imagined in your head for years...
Daniel Meyer
I don't really have a great answer for this, but one thing it's helped me to keep in mind is that there is an answer, somewhere, for whatever's giving you problems in your story, and if you keep thinking and working on it, you can eventually get over that hump. So just remember that writers block is fixable and temporary. And it's okay to take a break, so long as you come back to it...
Daniel Meyer
Well, my current book is Sam Adams book 2, so my main goal is to pay off some of the things I foreshadow in book 1. Regarding the overall storyline, the villain is someone I've rewritten/repurposed from a very early version of book 1. I thought they were too cool not to use, and it turns out they dovetail very well with the themes and tone of book 2. I'm not gonna tell you who they are yet, though...
Daniel Meyer
I think one of the most important things to do (it helped me a lot) is to just get into the groove of writing regularly. It can be hard to find the time and it might take you a while to develop the habit, but once you do it helps immensely. The more you do it, the better you get, obviously, but also, the more you write, the more you want to, and the more ideas you come up with...
Daniel Meyer
I'm currently working on WILD SIDE (working title,) book two of the Sam Adams series, which will pay off some of the things the first book sets up while foreshadowing more trouble for poor old Sam in subsequent books.
Daniel Meyer
It wasn't anything very dramatic; I just had a whole bunch of ideas and finally decided I had to try and make them a reality instead of letting them go to waste...
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