Ask the Author: John Baur
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John Baur
I'm going to go with Crowley and Aziraphale, the demon and angel antagonists from Pratchett and Gaiman's "Bad Omens." They're on opposite sides, but the impending final trumpet ushering in the end of the world forces them to work together for their common goal – preventing Armageddon. It's such a great, funny book, the funniest take on the end of the world I've ever read.
John Baur
I don't. Because I don't get writer's block. Sometimes the words come easier than others. But there is no writing problem that can't be solved by more writing.
John Baur
1) Keep writing, no matter what.
2) Finish what ytou start. If it doesn't seem like it's going right, plow ahead and finish. You can't finish it if you don't write it down.
3) Be ruthlessly, brutally honest with yourself. You're not doing yourself a favor by thinking "It's good enough." It's not about you, it's about the story. Do justice to the story, no matter what.
2) Finish what ytou start. If it doesn't seem like it's going right, plow ahead and finish. You can't finish it if you don't write it down.
3) Be ruthlessly, brutally honest with yourself. You're not doing yourself a favor by thinking "It's good enough." It's not about you, it's about the story. Do justice to the story, no matter what.
John Baur
Couple of things. I'm working my way through a serial for a magazine, and I've just started writing a new novel. Plus ideas for a sequel to "Chrissie Warren: Pirate Hunter" are bussing through my head.
John Baur
I was feeling sorry for myself. My agent, who had been trying to sell my first novel for almost two years, wrote to tell me that it was "dead in the water." At the time I had just finished reading a new novel to review it. It was OK, but not anything great. How did *he* get published? And I thought to myself, "It's OK, but I could do better. Wait, I DID do better! And I can do even better than that!: And I sat down and started what became "Chrissie Warren:" Pirate Hunter." And I was right. It IS better than that book I was reading.
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