Ask the Author: Victor Samuel Mejia
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Victor Samuel Mejia
I sit down at the typer and force myself to write. Anything. Even if it's nonsense. I find that after 5-10 minutes, the ideas begin to flow. I get back into the groove and break through chapters I've been struggling with. I think it was Pablo Picasso who said that inspiration is real, but it has to find you working first. This has been true for me.
Victor Samuel Mejia
I don't know that there's really a "best thing about being a writer." Writing is tough. Some successful writers enjoy the money and fame, I'm sure. But I suppose that for me, it's simply writing stories that I want to read.
Victor Samuel Mejia
It's the same advice Stephen King gave in his book, On Writing. If you want to write, then you have to read. If you don't have the time to read, then you don't have the time to write. Read the classics first, especially mythology and Shakespeare. Devour that stuff. Then read a few books on story structure: The Hero With a Thousand Faces, by Joseph Campbell, The Writer's Journey, by Christopher Vogler, and the Save The Cat series, by Blake Snyder.
Victor Samuel Mejia
I have a few projects. But the one to which I've been devoting the most time is about a boy with schizophrenia who after the townsfolk mysteriously vanish, searches for a fantasy amusement park called Wonder World. But he stumbles on a secret facility where the director of a particle accelerator has opened a time portal.
Victor Samuel Mejia
I force myself to sit at the typer. Writing is a tough exercise, like weightlifting or doing a cold plunge. I don't want to do it. But these ideas that are floating in my head want to get out. So, I force myself to sit at my Freewrite typer or computer and bang them out. Like Picasso said, you have to work first to be inspired.
Victor Samuel Mejia
I read many books about ancient Mexican history and wondered if the Native Americans of the Great Plains were aware of the Mexica (Aztecs). That's how the idea grew for God's Flesh.
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