Ask the Author: Raymond C. Fuller, Jr.
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Raymond C. Fuller, Jr.
I have three books I'm working on. One is a sequel of sorts to my "The Accidental Bully" series called "Jimmy" based on a minor character in the series. It's going slowly for a number of reasons. Another is a fictionalized story of young love growing old and complicated. It also will be a long time before it's done; it's complicated. My main project right now is my new novel "In Dreams, You See". It's a murder mystery mixed up with some supernatural occurances in a different style for me.
I'm also gathering some of my old short stories and writing some new ones. Good thing I retired!
I'm also gathering some of my old short stories and writing some new ones. Good thing I retired!
Raymond C. Fuller, Jr.
Write. For you. Not somebody else. For you. Unless you want to make a living at it. Then you have to write for you and make sure it's interesting to somebody else.
I have to admit: I am NOT a writer. I'm more of a storyteller. I WISH I could write as well as others, and I'm becoming a better writer. But if I had waited until I was a "real writer" before I tried to write my first book, The Glass, I would never have written it at all.
I have to admit: I am NOT a writer. I'm more of a storyteller. I WISH I could write as well as others, and I'm becoming a better writer. But if I had waited until I was a "real writer" before I tried to write my first book, The Glass, I would never have written it at all.
Raymond C. Fuller, Jr.
Can you remember all the times you've said to yourself, "That's what I SHOULD have said"? Maybe in response to your boss, or your significant other or the rude clerk or the poor kid crying in Walmart. You didn't know what to say at the time, but later, you knew the exact words you should have said. I can go back and say it. Well, my characters can. And they usually do! All those times I spent worrying about how I should have acted or what I should have said, I can make someone else do. AND I can make the other characters act the way I want. Hmmm. I think I need to get a life....
Also, I have to admit, I love solving puzzles. Writing is like solving puzzles. What would this charatcer do if...? Why? Then how would the other characters react? Why?
Also, I have to admit, I love solving puzzles. Writing is like solving puzzles. What would this charatcer do if...? Why? Then how would the other characters react? Why?
Raymond C. Fuller, Jr.
Not well! Actually, there is no pressure for me to meet a deadline, so I rarely let writer's block bother me. Usually if i'm stuck on something, it's because I wrote my characters into a corner.. I just have to figure a way out. Or (and I hate this) rewrite what got them there to begin with. Long walks with "writing" in my head sometimes works, but more often I go to bed thinking about it and wake up in the middle of the night with a couple of ideas. I've "written" many a chapter while still laying in bed in the dark.
Raymond C. Fuller, Jr.
Mostly by watching people. What are they thinking? Why are they doing that? "What if?" "Why?" The two main questions that are always in my head are "What if?" and "Why?". What if they were looking for a long-lost lover? What if they found them? WHy are they looking so amused or so sad or so oblivious? What if they had a deep dark secret that they were trying to hide. My stories almost always begin with people.
Raymond C. Fuller, Jr.
For my current novel (soon to be released) I was walking along the east shore trail of Onondaga Lake, trying to come up with an idea for NaNoWriMo which was coming up in just a couple of weeks. I'd been thinking of trying something a little different, maybe something with a supernatural or "spooky" twist to it. I watched the people I passed (or as was more likely, who passed me) and thought about why they were there. There was one particular "gentleman" in dark glasses who was obviously checking out the younger women and I wondered "what if"? One "what if" led to another and "In Dreams, You See" was born.
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