Ask the Author: Andrew Williams
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Andrew Williams
1. Be persistent
2. Read a 'how to write' book for ideas about pacing, structure, character and story arcs. You don't have to follow slavishly but it will spark ideas
3. Show your work to others for frank opinions
4. Create characters and a world that fascinates you, perhaps something you know
5. Get a good Agent
2. Read a 'how to write' book for ideas about pacing, structure, character and story arcs. You don't have to follow slavishly but it will spark ideas
3. Show your work to others for frank opinions
4. Create characters and a world that fascinates you, perhaps something you know
5. Get a good Agent
Andrew Williams
1. Seeing your book between covers
2. Time you live in the fictional world in your head
3. Sparks at the computer, such as a turn phrase you didn't think you had in you. Pride in creation perhaps.
4. Praise. It's a lonely business, I don't think I'm the only writer who needs affirmation
It is a privilege but a painful one, because it can be a lonely business.
2. Time you live in the fictional world in your head
3. Sparks at the computer, such as a turn phrase you didn't think you had in you. Pride in creation perhaps.
4. Praise. It's a lonely business, I don't think I'm the only writer who needs affirmation
It is a privilege but a painful one, because it can be a lonely business.
Andrew Williams
I've always worked to deadlines. I've missed quite a few it's true, but a delivery does concentrate the mind. As you will know, writing isn't just inspiration but persistence and perspiration. I'm dogged and would rather write a few sentences a day then do nothing. There are times when I sit and stare at the screen and even a few sentences seems impossible. Then I will walk and escape to the great outdoors. Break throughs always seem to come when I'm moving, walking or running. Sometimes I will look to my favourite authors, too, just to remind myself how they have dealt with narrative challenges.
Andrew Williams
Lots of different places. Lloyd George is a character, and he has always been big in the Williams household. I've always been fascinated by the Frist World War, and not just the daily grind of trench warfare - the big decisions too. Lloyd George and the generals fell out often, and in 1917 he tried to stop Field Marshal Haig fighting the Passchendaele offensive. While soldiers fought, politicians and generals squabbled over strategy. There had to be a story in that. Haig was so convinced he was right and winning - that wasn't just his personality, but an intelligence failure too. Politics and intelligence - two great interests = story.
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