Ask the Author: Pete Mesling
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Pete Mesling
I usually write through it, but sometimes I pick up a guitar instead. Or work on my podcast. Or take a walk. Sometimes a break is welcome, in other words. When it's not, you have to treat it like the enemy.
Pete Mesling
Being able to create and control your own universe of characters is pretty hard to top. Life is nothing like that for most of us.
Pete Mesling
Stop being an aspiring writer and start being a writer.
Pete Mesling
Most of my writing energy is going into the novel I'm working on right now, but I do take breaks to write short stories every now and then.
Pete Mesling
A twitchy feeling sometimes comes over me, intimating that if I sit down to write, something worthwhile might just come of it. Other times I have to do the sit-down-and-write part first and hope for the best.
Pete Mesling
From a Werner Herzog documentary, actually.
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