Ask the Author: Aaron Safronoff
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Aaron Safronoff
The knife spoke to him in a series of bent reflections, color and light liquid in the metal, smiling. Her body squelched the sound a bit, somewhat better here than there, but never wholly silenced it.
[Cheating in an extra:-)]
"Everyone's costumes are amazing!"
"It's not Halloween."
[Cheating in an extra:-)]
"Everyone's costumes are amazing!"
"It's not Halloween."
Aaron Safronoff
Railsea, and I'd explore as far as the rails go :-P .
Aaron Safronoff
Finished Margaret Atwood's, The Handmaid's Tale, just in time for the Hulu television interpretation, and almost done with American Gods, by Neil Gaiman. I know that looks like I'm reading TV, but I swear, it's a coincidence. :-)
I'm not sure where I'll turn next. I like to gauge how I feel at the end of a read, and allow that to guide my choice. I'll make sure to update my currently reading to match... well, I'll try! I will try, dammit, I mean it. :-P
I'm not sure where I'll turn next. I like to gauge how I feel at the end of a read, and allow that to guide my choice. I'll make sure to update my currently reading to match... well, I'll try! I will try, dammit, I mean it. :-P
Aaron Safronoff
I suppose my life contains many of the same mysteries as anyone: the ever-popular, QQuestion of (In)Fidelity, and, Trying to Find Myself - A Work in Progress, and of course, Who Broke the Window? Spoiler: that was me.
Today, I often wonder where the mothership is, and what's taking it so long, but that's less a mystery and more a cautionary tale about purgatory - this could be it, folks. If you've forgotten we're trapped, that our only goal must be escape, then our jailers have won.
Why didn't you qualify 'plot' in this question? That's the real mystery. ba-dum... dum. The last hit on the drum as weak as the punchline.
Cheers!
Today, I often wonder where the mothership is, and what's taking it so long, but that's less a mystery and more a cautionary tale about purgatory - this could be it, folks. If you've forgotten we're trapped, that our only goal must be escape, then our jailers have won.
Why didn't you qualify 'plot' in this question? That's the real mystery. ba-dum... dum. The last hit on the drum as weak as the punchline.
Cheers!
Aaron Safronoff
I'm assuming written examples of fiction -- good reads, right? My narrow exposure to the Romance genre probably cripples my response, but so what, I'm going with Many Waters, by Madeleine L'Engle, and the love triangle of Dennys, Sandy, and Yalith. (I had to look all the names up, the essence pulled from deep memory.) I fell in love with Yalith, too -- I was likely single digit years at the time -- and I've never forgotten that feeling. Yalith showed extraordinary caring, nursing one of the "normal" boys back from death, and I can still feel the warmth of her hands. When I finished reading the story, I felt bittersweet pangs for the first time in my life; I missed them, and their affection for one another. Great love.
Okay, now, my movie answer even though you didn't invite it: Disney's Fox and the Hound. "We'll be friends forever, won't we..." said by the young Fox, still makes me cry! Even right now, goosebumps and threatened tears. So vivid.
Honest answers. If you want a more adult version of the answers, I have those, too. ;-)
Cheers!
Okay, now, my movie answer even though you didn't invite it: Disney's Fox and the Hound. "We'll be friends forever, won't we..." said by the young Fox, still makes me cry! Even right now, goosebumps and threatened tears. So vivid.
Honest answers. If you want a more adult version of the answers, I have those, too. ;-)
Cheers!
Aaron Safronoff
Thank you, Ashley :-D . I'm so glad you enjoyed the first of the trilogy -- I'm on chapter 12 of book 2, today! Hoping to keep you up all night again ;-) .
Aaron Safronoff
I write.
Seriously. That's not a cop-out. Writer's block always sounds like a pretentious way of avoiding work to me. If I want to write, I write. It might be crap, but I write. I can't work it out by not writing.
Seriously. That's not a cop-out. Writer's block always sounds like a pretentious way of avoiding work to me. If I want to write, I write. It might be crap, but I write. I can't work it out by not writing.
Aaron Safronoff
Sharing myself with others in a meaningful, intimate way. It's amazing. Readers spend hours with you immersed in a story that emerges somewhere between you... I love it.
Aaron Safronoff
Read more. :-) . Question everything. Take expository writing courses! Learning to express yourself clearly to others is the first hurdle! Once you can compose your ideas in a way that reaches an audience, your creative endeavors are limitless.
Aaron Safronoff
I'm working on my fourth novel, Beneath the Fall. The story is unrelated to anything else I've released, and is the first in a series of novels about the world of Cerulean. Cerulean is an ocean wrapped around a star with flotillas of giant, intertwined trees on its surface. The plot follows the adventure of three young creatures born in the canopy as they discover the roots of their world and the darkness that has grown there.
The manuscript is complete and I'm integrating the professional edits for the remainder of December. (I'm staying away from spoilers here, so this answer sounds sorta generic. If you want details, please don't hesitate to write me directly. Sneak peeks are available!)
The manuscript is complete and I'm integrating the professional edits for the remainder of December. (I'm staying away from spoilers here, so this answer sounds sorta generic. If you want details, please don't hesitate to write me directly. Sneak peeks are available!)
Aaron Safronoff
I don't ever think about it. I don't feel inspired to write or not to write. I write. Stories are everywhere. Some of them are in my head. I only have to choose one. That's the easy part :-P .
Aaron Safronoff
My most recent book idea was the result of working an odd-job. I was hired to write random concepts for everything from Halloween events to television series. I even presented full specs for casual games and several screenplays, but a random paragraph from a slightly-cleaned-up stream-of-consciousness made the biggest impact on my employer. The idea grew until it became my fourth novel--which is in final editing right now! ('Now' used loosely, because uh, I'm obviously playing hooky on Goodreads.)
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