Ask the Author: Wayne Mallows
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Wayne Mallows
The ideas for Dark Origins came from a conversation I was having with my 19 year old son. We were discussing book three, Unnatural Selection and got onto the topic of where I thought vampires came from and as to whether I thought the mythical creature had, or did, actually live. As I began explaining my thoughts on the matter, both historically as well as my own imagined idea on the matter, the seeds for Dark Origins began to be sewn. It would be another year and half before I had the rough manuscript competed and began to create book four.
Wayne Mallows
For me, writing is something that I do not possess control over. I write when the feeling hits me. If I try and force it, well, it simply ends badly.
I often play out the scene or scenes in my mind for days and sometime weeks in advance of my writing it. By doing this, it is sort of like writing from a memory, those fictional events having taken on a life of their own within my mind. It is much like someone recalling last summer's vacation to a fantastic place. Those images, feelings and sensations belonging to that trip coming to life as soon as you begin to describe them to another.
I often play out the scene or scenes in my mind for days and sometime weeks in advance of my writing it. By doing this, it is sort of like writing from a memory, those fictional events having taken on a life of their own within my mind. It is much like someone recalling last summer's vacation to a fantastic place. Those images, feelings and sensations belonging to that trip coming to life as soon as you begin to describe them to another.
Wayne Mallows
I am currently rewriting book one in the Vampyre Tales, Whitechapel Road. I was never happy with the editing of the book and so I am correcting those issues now. I have also added just over 78,000 words, enriching the story but no departing from the original tale.
Wayne Mallows
Write what you are passionate about. Stay within a topic you know about, or if you venture into other areas, then be prepared to do a great deal of research. Lastly, new writers best develop a thick skin, because everyone is a critic and you truly cannot please everyone.
Wayne Mallows
Being a writer allows me the opportunity to escape from the every day demands of life and slip into another world. It allows me to take things hidden within my thoughts and bring them to life through the written word. I find it so humbling when someone who had read one of my books, reaches out to me in order to express how much they enjoyed the whole book or some small aspect of the story.
Wayne Mallows
I do not get writer's block that often, thankfully, but on the occasions when I do, I will listen to quiet classical music or Gregorian chant. I write better at night as a rule, but even then, sometime I may have to take a drive on a quiet back road in order to clear my mind.
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