Ask the Author: Ian Vince
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Ian Vince
By the need to describe something, to challenge it with words.
Ian Vince
A book that looks at the landscape and the secrets that are hidden in plain sight.
Ian Vince
Just write. Get in the flow, find where your voice takes you, never say 'no' to a character or a thought that wants to take you elsewhere (find out what lies down that path and investigate it, at least) - it means they are animate, have life.
Ian Vince
Doing the thing that you truly love, even the bits you hate, all day.
Ian Vince
If you are asking for my advice, the only way to deal with writer's block is to write - write anything, limber up on nonsense, write about the block, write about the blank screen, write about a world that lives in two dimensions on that screen, where each pixel on that screen is a garden planted by an omnipotent, but unreliable god...
Writer's block is usually selective - it's a block on what you're writing now – it's a fear thing; self-editing even before you've even typed a word, a paralysis brought on by a self-imposed worry. Try a different viewpoint, a different tense, whatever works for you.
I deal with writer's block by staring at the screen until my forehead bleeds.
Writer's block is usually selective - it's a block on what you're writing now – it's a fear thing; self-editing even before you've even typed a word, a paralysis brought on by a self-imposed worry. Try a different viewpoint, a different tense, whatever works for you.
I deal with writer's block by staring at the screen until my forehead bleeds.
Ian Vince
From a journey across England: I made a mental note of all the amazing things in prehistory - aerial and aquatic dinosaurs, volcanoes, earthquakes and mountain building are all in our deep past - and yet we go about our business every day on top of it all. The trouble was that most geology books didn't really communicate that excitement about our past.
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