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Paul Mitton
Holmes and Watson. Not a couple in the biblical sense, but still... separately they are incomplete. Together, like Kirk, Spock and Bones, they make a complete being. Look at long-married partners. Individually they are two-dimensional. Together, they are a different enity, one to be reckoned with!
Paul Mitton
Hi, Jeanne! Yes, I am currently about three-quarters of the way through the first volume in a fantasy trilogy (epic fantasy? You tell me) called the Saga of Eregon. Elves and dwarves but with shifted stereotypes, firedrakes and dragons but with sound phsyiology, and people from both mediaeval and current backgrounds (with memory lapses) and a half-assed world creation and mythology to back them up.
Strangely, it's the people who give me the problems :)
It will get better, I hope.
Strangely, it's the people who give me the problems :)
It will get better, I hope.
Paul Mitton
Usually, a book idea is the result of a coming together of several seperate elements: for example, a fragment of overheard conversation, a science article and an item of news. When these disparate fragments are joined, the idea thus created is totally unlike any of its constituent parts.
That is true in the case of my current WIP, but it also includes all the elements that are obligatory in epic fantasy. And some that aren't.
That is true in the case of my current WIP, but it also includes all the elements that are obligatory in epic fantasy. And some that aren't.
Paul Mitton
I don't. I sit down and write every day. Some days are easier than others.
Paul Mitton
The first part of an epic fantasy trilogy, The Chronicles of Erestor. The first volume is called Proving Grounds. I'm at 48K words, so not quite halfway through.
Paul Mitton
Plan what you're going to write. Then write it. Then write something else. Repeat ad infinitum.
Paul Mitton
Fiction is lying, so when you write fiction, you are expected to lie. Profusely and constantly. And there is no social guilt or stigma attached to it!
Paul Mitton
Difficult question to answer, since I've never experienced writer's block. I suspect it stems from a writer's desire to create something immortal and inspiring and their doubts about their ability to do so. Since I fully expect most of my writing to be crap until it's been heavily revised, I don't have that inner conflict.
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