Ask the Author: Mike Driver
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Mike Driver
For me books are usually created out of a combination of ideas and thoughts. I wanted to write something about a group, (my last novel was very much about an individual), I wanted it to be original and different and focus on something we rarely see in the horror world and I wanted it to be about something more than people being picked off by a big bad scary monster.
Mike Driver
My second novel. Draft 1 is finished. Time to get out the polish.
Mike Driver
Read more, write more. Try to get better but be you.
Mike Driver
Just losing yourself in your plot, characters and situations to the point that the only thing that is real is what is happening on the page.
Mike Driver
It depends where i am in the process. If I'm still in first draft mode keep going, keep writing don't worry that it could be better - it will be in drafts 2 and 3.
After that everything else is rewriting, editing or proofing, besides when you get to the end you can get proper perspective on whether you really were blocked or not.
After that everything else is rewriting, editing or proofing, besides when you get to the end you can get proper perspective on whether you really were blocked or not.
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