Ask the Author: Todd Vickers
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Todd Vickers
Don’t rush to publishing. I am often astonished at how there are better ways to say things that do not occur to me at first. Sometimes new ideas are provoked by beta readers or editors who are not grasping or are misunderstanding the points made i.e., they are either vague or too complex. I also think the above caution can go too far. It is possible to edit endlessly without making the text better for a reader. At some point, the author must leave the reader do their own thinking.
If you need permissions, begin that process ASAP. You will need to negotiate with publishers who hold the copyright and they may have different ideas than you. Also, they work on their own time-frame which may be dreadfully inconvenient.
Don’t trust to memory! You simply must have a way to write or record your ideas when they happen. About eight out of ten times, if I think I will remember something, I will forget, even when the content is important.
If you need permissions, begin that process ASAP. You will need to negotiate with publishers who hold the copyright and they may have different ideas than you. Also, they work on their own time-frame which may be dreadfully inconvenient.
Don’t trust to memory! You simply must have a way to write or record your ideas when they happen. About eight out of ten times, if I think I will remember something, I will forget, even when the content is important.
Todd Vickers
I have several projects in the works.
I regularly write for http://noshameinsex.com/, a blog that questions both cultural and counter cultural ideas about sexuality.
I began my first fiction project! I want to give readers some distance to view controversial ideas experiences in a more objective way. Almost all of the experiences of the fictional characters are taken from real life. In fiction, I can collect the experiences, foolishness, and conflicts in one place. The subject is men and their ideas about women.
The men are from different backgrounds, some conservative, others moderate and some quite outside the convention; some are friends other have never met. They all gather at a beach house for a weekend and a contentious discussion about women begins. Needless to say passions flare, beliefs are scrutinized, and what is both beautiful and terrifying about men turns in this mill of the circumstance.
Lastly, I am revising my older paperback works for new eBook editions.
I regularly write for http://noshameinsex.com/, a blog that questions both cultural and counter cultural ideas about sexuality.
I began my first fiction project! I want to give readers some distance to view controversial ideas experiences in a more objective way. Almost all of the experiences of the fictional characters are taken from real life. In fiction, I can collect the experiences, foolishness, and conflicts in one place. The subject is men and their ideas about women.
The men are from different backgrounds, some conservative, others moderate and some quite outside the convention; some are friends other have never met. They all gather at a beach house for a weekend and a contentious discussion about women begins. Needless to say passions flare, beliefs are scrutinized, and what is both beautiful and terrifying about men turns in this mill of the circumstance.
Lastly, I am revising my older paperback works for new eBook editions.
Todd Vickers
Useless human misery and the desire to reduce it is behind most of my writing. When we are not busy habitually setting ourselves up for suffering, joys previously unnoticed become more obvious. One of those joys is the time an energy previously spent trying to sustain fictions about the world and ourselves is liberated to discover life in new ways.
Todd Vickers
I wrote an article for a blog and used a radical poem by the 15th century apostate Kabir to illuminate a point I was making about identity, that it is a mental construct. The thoughts about any self are only symbolic, a useful fiction. Just as we can never eat the thought of a banana, we can never be what we think of ourselves. Yet, it is easy to suffer over our fictional identity. Kabir's poetic inferences suggest that knowledge of this fictional identity and its useless misery are not new.
Fortunately I received encouragement and support to expand upon Kabir's poetry and the result is The Relevance of Kabir.
Fortunately I received encouragement and support to expand upon Kabir's poetry and the result is The Relevance of Kabir.
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