Ask the Author: Colin Wilcox
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Colin Wilcox
Freewriting. Just writing anything that comes to mind, even if it's four pages of F-bombs. If that doesn't work, I tuck the issue into the back of my mind and give it time.
Colin Wilcox
I only get one thing? Watching a story take off in an unexpected direction. Giving a character lots of foibles and contradictions. Watching characters evolve with the story. The ideas that arrive during second and third drafts. Working on the level of metaphor and simile. Adding smells to a scene (not done often enough in novels).
Colin Wilcox
Kill the TV, put down the booze, and write. Yes, it will suck. First drafts always suck. So do second and third drafts. Keep at it anyway.
Colin Wilcox
A domestic terrorism thriller that also takes a whirlwind tour of the 1960s.
Colin Wilcox
I sit down and start. Amateurs wait for inspiration. Professionals know that if they start, inspiration eventually shows up. As Stephen King put it, the muse is a slob in a spaghetti strap t-shirt and 3-day beard, chomping on a stogie, but it comes.
Colin Wilcox
It's a continuation of my first book, the second volume of a trilogy. I drew on contemporary politics for some of the situations later in the story.
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