Ask the Author: Steve Goble
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Steve Goble
Reading inspires me to write. I have enjoyed so many great books over take years, and I have always just wanted to see if I could write something people might enjoy.
Steve Goble
"The Red Sphinx," by Alexandre Dumas
Steve Goble
When I look at my social media feeds, I am fairly certain a lot of people have been brainwashed by a cult ...
Steve Goble
I love reading murder mysteries, and I love sea-faring adventures, too. I decided to see if I could blend them, and invented Spider John Rush, a decent ship's carpenter who became entrapped in the pirate life and who finds himself puzzling out crimes on the Spanish Main. And yes, it is every bit as much fun to write these as it sounds.
Steve Goble
I don't remember ever not being inspired to write.
Steve Goble
I am writing a second Spider John mystery, called "The Devil's Wind," which is sort of a traditional locked-room whodunit, but with pirates.
I also am working on a modern-day cop thriller about an Ohio sheriff's detective haunted by a horrific case from his past.
I also am working on a modern-day cop thriller about an Ohio sheriff's detective haunted by a horrific case from his past.
Steve Goble
Write what you want to write, and don't worry about whether it will sell. If you love it, someone else will, too, and you can find an audience.
Don't scrawl through magazine guidelines and tailor a story just for those guidelines -- unless it is a story you would write anyway. If you a writing it just to match someone else's vision, you are missing the point.
Read constantly, and read outside your genre. You can learn from all sorts of stuff. And don't skip reading the classics, even if you write erotic potboilers. Learn from everyone.
Don't scrawl through magazine guidelines and tailor a story just for those guidelines -- unless it is a story you would write anyway. If you a writing it just to match someone else's vision, you are missing the point.
Read constantly, and read outside your genre. You can learn from all sorts of stuff. And don't skip reading the classics, even if you write erotic potboilers. Learn from everyone.
Steve Goble
The best thing about being a writer is when people say they enjoy reading something I wrote. If I can entertain someone for a while, or make them think, then I call it a good day.
Tied for best thing about being a writer is knowing other writers. It can be a remarkably supportive community.
Also, getting paid. Getting paid is good.
Tied for best thing about being a writer is knowing other writers. It can be a remarkably supportive community.
Also, getting paid. Getting paid is good.
Steve Goble
I only get "writer's block" when I have a specific plot problem involving a work in progress. If I don't know why a character did a certain thing, or can't determine a plausible reason for something to happen in my story, I can get gummed up and find it hard to write anything. Once in a while, I can work on a later portion of a book while I untangle the plot problem, but usually, the plot problem wins.
So I spend a lot of time thinking things over, getting inside the heads of various characters, trying to decide what they think they should do -- until I have unknotted the plot problem. Then I write.
I never sit down to write without some idea in my head of how the story is going to go, though. I have no shortage of ideas, no indecision as to what to write.
So I spend a lot of time thinking things over, getting inside the heads of various characters, trying to decide what they think they should do -- until I have unknotted the plot problem. Then I write.
I never sit down to write without some idea in my head of how the story is going to go, though. I have no shortage of ideas, no indecision as to what to write.
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