Ask the Author: Geoff Mead
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Geoff Mead
If it's minor, I go for a walk - moving the body frees the mind. If it's major then it's a sign that I'm "under-nourished" and I need to ingest more stories, movies, landscapes; try new/novel activities; meet new people; rest for while; write in response to something else.
Geoff Mead
The process itself is fascinating: sense emerging on the page as I play with words, weighing them, re-arranging them; enjoying them. Seeing the final product (book, article, poem) in print never fails to delight me and then there's the greatest thrill of all when readers tell you how your words have touched their lives.
Geoff Mead
Write about what fascinates, intrigues, delights, puzzles, annoys you. You've got to care about it one way or the other or your readers won't (if you get any readers). Above all, write. Puts words on paper, or on the screen. Writers write, they don't just dream about being writers.
Geoff Mead
A collection of sideways looks at traditional stories under the overall title of The Untold Tales; a novel set in the early 1800s on the old fur trade route on the borders of US and Canada; some non-fiction articles on storytelling and leadership; plus the odd poem.
Geoff Mead
Being a writer and maker of stories was the first thing I wanted to be (aged 8) but life took me in another direction and it took me some time to have anything to say! I find inspiration in many places and especially in the untold nooks and crannies of old myths and folktales.
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