Ask the Author: J.T. Evans
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J.T. Evans
Loud music with a heavy rhythm (taiko drums are the best!) kick me into writing mode. When make time in my busy schedule to write or edit, I crank this type of music and get down to work.
J.T. Evans
The flippant answer is: Getting paid to lie to people.
The truth is: Just like everyone else, I've been through highs and lows in my life. Many lows. Depths I can barely fathom. The only way I could handle them on a day-to-day basis was to escape by reading fiction. It gave my mind and emotions and soul a chance to simmer down and get immersed into something that wasn't the problem of the day. I hope to provide a similar escape for my readers. I want them to find a way to leave behind the worries of the real world by exploring my world (or my take on the real world) for a few hours.
The truth is: Just like everyone else, I've been through highs and lows in my life. Many lows. Depths I can barely fathom. The only way I could handle them on a day-to-day basis was to escape by reading fiction. It gave my mind and emotions and soul a chance to simmer down and get immersed into something that wasn't the problem of the day. I hope to provide a similar escape for my readers. I want them to find a way to leave behind the worries of the real world by exploring my world (or my take on the real world) for a few hours.
J.T. Evans
My inspiration for GRIFFIN'S FEATHER came from a few different angles. I love reality shows about capturing fugitives. It's the "human hunting human" aspect of things that I find very interesting. I suppose this was the seed for me making Marcus a bounty hunter. I wanted the novel to be an urban fantasy, and I'm a HUGE mythology buff. This threw in the angle of making him a bounty hunter for the deities of the ancient world hunting down lost/missing/kidnapped supernatural creatures. I also explored becoming a private investigator in Texas MANY decades ago, so I threw that portion of my own personal life into Marcus to add more flavor (and problems for Marcus) into the character.
J.T. Evans
A sword and sorcery novel involving the adventures of a bisexual street rat and his freed slave-gladiator friend who are trying make ends meet while saving missing children from their neighborhood.
J.T. Evans
Step 1: Start your stories.
Step 2: FINISH those stories.
Step 3: Let it "rest" for a while (a few days, a week, a month?) to get it out of your head.
Step 4: Come back fresh and edit the thing.
Step 5: Repeat steps 3 and 4 again.
Step 6: Kick the story out of the nest and start querying agents/editors or self publish it!
(PS: If you self publish it, there are whole lots of other steps involved, but I won't go into that here.)
Step 2: FINISH those stories.
Step 3: Let it "rest" for a while (a few days, a week, a month?) to get it out of your head.
Step 4: Come back fresh and edit the thing.
Step 5: Repeat steps 3 and 4 again.
Step 6: Kick the story out of the nest and start querying agents/editors or self publish it!
(PS: If you self publish it, there are whole lots of other steps involved, but I won't go into that here.)
J.T. Evans
I've been fortunate to never had writer's block. There are times when I want to write a scene that is in my near future more than the scene I have in front of my at the moment. Since I have to write in a linear fashion, this means I can't skip the "not fun" scene. When this happens, I ask myself, "How can pump more enjoyment into this scene for ME?" This invariably adds more enjoyment and fun into those scenes for the reader, and I'm able to more quickly get through those scenes and on to the one I'm really looking forward to.
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