Ask the Author: Jonathan Fore
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Jonathan Fore
I don't often suffer from writer's block, but on those few occasions I have simply done a chronological jump forward, assume that the plot was resolved in the way I planned, and continue writing. Usually within a few hundred words I see the solution, step back, and fill in that blank space. It has worked every time!
Jonathan Fore
Currently, I am working on the Lexicon Chase series. Book 1, Lexicon Chase and the Scrolls of the Harlequin is available for pre-order. Book 2, Lexicon Chase and the Riddle Song is complete, edited, typeset, and will be available in about 6 months. Book 3, Lexicon Chase and the Sapphire Scales is about half written.
Jonathan Fore
Well, first off, I would say if you're an aspiring writer, you need to stop reading this. Go write something. Writers write, right?
If you're still here, a good idea would be to take a basic English course. Coursea has a great basic English course, which I have taken more than once.
Also, spend all of your idle time in the study of story telling. I'm not talking about reading books about writing books. I am talking about reading books. If you want to write science fiction, read science fiction. If you want to write romance, read romance. Read books whenever you can, and listen to audio books during your commute.
Find time in your day, in your every day, to write. It's best to do about 2,500 words a day, but whatever you can do consistently is fine. The majority of all of my novels were written during my lunch break doing my pay-the-bills job. Four of them on an iPad. You use what you have with the time you have, and write. Everyday. Don't just say you want to be a writer, embrace it as a profession.
Also, I would recommend learning to type. Not picking and pecking with two fingers, but actually take some typing classes. If your fingers are tripping over the correct keys, it tends to slow you down, then you get to thinking, then you begin reading what you just wrote, and none of that is actually putting words down.
Lastly, all writers regardless, of their success, is an aspiring writer. Writing is an ever-evolving art that, in the end, is almost never mastered. Well, there is Jim Butcher. By the Great Furies, Jim.
If you're still here, a good idea would be to take a basic English course. Coursea has a great basic English course, which I have taken more than once.
Also, spend all of your idle time in the study of story telling. I'm not talking about reading books about writing books. I am talking about reading books. If you want to write science fiction, read science fiction. If you want to write romance, read romance. Read books whenever you can, and listen to audio books during your commute.
Find time in your day, in your every day, to write. It's best to do about 2,500 words a day, but whatever you can do consistently is fine. The majority of all of my novels were written during my lunch break doing my pay-the-bills job. Four of them on an iPad. You use what you have with the time you have, and write. Everyday. Don't just say you want to be a writer, embrace it as a profession.
Also, I would recommend learning to type. Not picking and pecking with two fingers, but actually take some typing classes. If your fingers are tripping over the correct keys, it tends to slow you down, then you get to thinking, then you begin reading what you just wrote, and none of that is actually putting words down.
Lastly, all writers regardless, of their success, is an aspiring writer. Writing is an ever-evolving art that, in the end, is almost never mastered. Well, there is Jim Butcher. By the Great Furies, Jim.
Jonathan Fore
I don't seem to have as much trouble with this as other writers do. I set time aside, and write. If I am not writing, during that time, I am working on the release and marketing of whatever it was I just finished writing.
I look for a quiet spot, I put on some music (usually trance-like or without vocals) and begin writing. I visualize the scene I am in or about to introduce as though it was a movie, and I'm off. That visualization can be all the inspiration I need.
I look for a quiet spot, I put on some music (usually trance-like or without vocals) and begin writing. I visualize the scene I am in or about to introduce as though it was a movie, and I'm off. That visualization can be all the inspiration I need.
Jonathan Fore
Lexicon Chase and the Scrolls of the Harlequin actually started out as a novella. I wrote it, or tried to, because I was asked to write something that wasn't as disturbing as my other work.
I tend to write apocalyptic stories, or splatter horror. These are often well received, but one of my readers asked if I couldn't write something that wasn't so dark, or as one of my reviewers described, so 'psycho-sexual body horror'. So I decided to do a fairytale kind of story with a modern twist.
The book, initially titled 'By Any Other Name,' wasn't released in the mainstream, but did satisfy the request. Later, my daughter was born, and with that, a new passion in my life. After writing 'Congress of Angels', I got the idea in my head to rewrite the novella project for my daughter.
This time, I took the fairytale story, and threaded it with the reality of teens today, added much more depth to the cast of characters, and built a world around them. Really, if you ask yourself, 'what would happen if a tormented girl--a real social outcast--was suddenly thrust upon a throne and made the ruler of an entire kingdom', you'll have the gist of the book.
The initial idea for the story is lost to me, but like most of my stories, it probably came from the title, which was a gift of Shakespeare. Thanks for that, dude.
I tend to write apocalyptic stories, or splatter horror. These are often well received, but one of my readers asked if I couldn't write something that wasn't so dark, or as one of my reviewers described, so 'psycho-sexual body horror'. So I decided to do a fairytale kind of story with a modern twist.
The book, initially titled 'By Any Other Name,' wasn't released in the mainstream, but did satisfy the request. Later, my daughter was born, and with that, a new passion in my life. After writing 'Congress of Angels', I got the idea in my head to rewrite the novella project for my daughter.
This time, I took the fairytale story, and threaded it with the reality of teens today, added much more depth to the cast of characters, and built a world around them. Really, if you ask yourself, 'what would happen if a tormented girl--a real social outcast--was suddenly thrust upon a throne and made the ruler of an entire kingdom', you'll have the gist of the book.
The initial idea for the story is lost to me, but like most of my stories, it probably came from the title, which was a gift of Shakespeare. Thanks for that, dude.
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