Ask the Author: Jay X. Lee
Answered Questions (7)
Jay X. Lee
In all honesty, it's heavily-inspired by STATION ELEVEN. Or at least the aspect of the travelling performers is. I've also long had a theory that schizophrenia is linked to telepathy and ESP, and I wanted to write a story where we're never sure if someone's hearing voices that exist only in their head, or if they're actually picking up on thoughts from those around them.
Jay X. Lee
I'm inspired constantly. My only real problem is carving the time out of my life to do it!
Jay X. Lee
THE CARAVAN: A PSI'S LEGACY is the third in the series and I'm nearly done outlining. It'll be out later this year!
Jay X. Lee
Stay true to what you feel about what you're writing and try not to think so much about an audience until much later. You'll have plenty of time for that. You're undoubtedly a reader, and you know what you like. Everybody's always saying "write what you know" but I say "write what you like".
Jay X. Lee
When you bang away at something until the end and you can barely wait to go back and read it. Then you do and BAM, you get to the end and go "Oof. That was gooooooood..."
Jay X. Lee
I don't! There's too many ideas for me to keep up with! The only time I ever feel blocked is when I'm trying too hard to work on a project that I'm just not that into at the moment (and it changes daily, if not hourly). Took me a while, but I learned to just shift gears and work on what I'm feeling. I've never been blocked since.
Jay X. Lee
Main character puts off their dreams for the daily grind, hoping to get to them one day, and they get up and go to school for years until it's time to get up and go to work for years, which they do until it's time to retire, never having gotten to those dreams. The main character is you.
About Goodreads Q&A
Ask and answer questions about books!
You can pose questions to the Goodreads community with Reader Q&A, or ask your favorite author a question with Ask the Author.
See Featured Authors Answering Questions
Learn more