Ask the Author: Patrick Todoroff
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Patrick Todoroff
I can see Cape Cod leaning heavily into nautical tales, but an 'environment for memoirs and cozy mysteries'? You mean due to the retiree market demographic?
Also, are you asking if the WNO speakers were interesting? They were nice. But I recall one speaker was billed as an expert on using social media to promote your book - but he was mostly into Twitter and hadn't written a book. So, yeah... Well-intentioned but not exactly helpful.
Also, are you asking if the WNO speakers were interesting? They were nice. But I recall one speaker was billed as an expert on using social media to promote your book - but he was mostly into Twitter and hadn't written a book. So, yeah... Well-intentioned but not exactly helpful.
Patrick Todoroff
No. Although I attended several Writer's Night Out a number of years ago. Nice folks but I was hoping for more fellow spec-fiction writers.
Patrick Todoroff
The Clar1ty Wars is a sci fi re-imagining of the 19th century Opium Wars. However my next project came from a dream.
Patrick Todoroff
Inspiration doesn't come from a single source. It's a mulch of dreams, life, work, and prayer.
For me, it's a matter of writing even when I don't 'feel' it. I have come to realize 'feeling' will engage once I press through the accreted lethargy, reasons and excuses.
Writers write. It's work. Cool and challenging, but work nonetheless.
For me, it's a matter of writing even when I don't 'feel' it. I have come to realize 'feeling' will engage once I press through the accreted lethargy, reasons and excuses.
Writers write. It's work. Cool and challenging, but work nonetheless.
Patrick Todoroff
I'm back in the Shattered Worlds after a long hiatus, and I just finished the first draft of a dungeon crawl adventure titled Five Torches.
For the game table, I'm working on 'Nightwatch: Blood and Bone'; a tactical RPG expansion in the same fantasy monster hunting genre as Nightwatch Terror and Treasure.
Truth is, my head is loaded with bad ideas and I occasionally manage to get one out and hammer it into half-decent shape.
For the game table, I'm working on 'Nightwatch: Blood and Bone'; a tactical RPG expansion in the same fantasy monster hunting genre as Nightwatch Terror and Treasure.
Truth is, my head is loaded with bad ideas and I occasionally manage to get one out and hammer it into half-decent shape.
Patrick Todoroff
Read everything, especially authors that are more skilled. Read poetry - lots of it.
Then embrace the learning curve and write. And keep writing. Anything worth doing well is worth doing poorly at first.
Then embrace the learning curve and write. And keep writing. Anything worth doing well is worth doing poorly at first.
Patrick Todoroff
Of course I want reward and affirmation, but the deeper satisfaction is the ability to exercise/challenge my imagination, and who I become in the process of creating a finished piece.
Patrick Todoroff
Write stream-of-consciousness, sights, smells, sounds, dialogue, anything without concern to edits or order until the logjam breaks. Doesn't have to pertain to my current project - whatever I need to get out of my system. Lots of raw material surfaces that gets worked later.
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