Ask the Author: Martin Slevin
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Martin Slevin
Now in this new and unfamiliar world, Samantha, with her heart pounding, placed her fingers firmly on the coffin lid. Filled with excitement and dread, wondering what she would discover, she shoved the lid aside, and looked out.
Martin Slevin
Writer's block can only occur when the tale has not been planned out before the writing process began. If you plan your story in detail, chapter by chapter before you begin to write, knowing before you begin the first chapter, how the last chapter ends, you will never have writer's block, because at every point in the creative process you will know what you are going to write next.
Martin Slevin
Knowing that whatever you produce is a part of you, yourself. The idea, the story never existed before you made it manifest in the real world though the power of your language. We make things appear out of nothing, using our pens as magic wands. We are the sorcerer's of the modern age.
Martin Slevin
Set a period of time aside every day, make this your special time, and be creative in that period. After a while you will be able to turn the creative energy in you on and off like a light switch.
Martin Slevin
The tale of a young girl's journey through her own consciousness.
Martin Slevin
I wouldn't say I become inspired, as such. I just like to tell stories, and am always on the look out for a new yarn. It could be a snippet of a conversation overhead, an article of news, anything really, that starts a sequence of thoughts, beginning with a simple event, and then evolving over time into a full story.
Martin Slevin
When watching a wildlife documentary, it occurred to me that humans are not the only intelligent creature on this planet. This began a chain of thought that lead to the concept of Cosmic Zoo. That other species from the same animal kingdom as ours may have evolved on other planets to dominate their environment, as we have here.
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