Ask the Author: Jason Dias
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Jason Dias
I would give a mouse a cookie.
Jason Dias
Where do ideas come from? Mentation and concentration. I sit around and think about stuff, about stories, characters, settings, physics, fuzzy math, the big questions. And then sometimes workable stories fall out of all that mess.
Jason Dias
I used to need inspiration but, these days, I'm always writing. Even when I don't seem to be writing, I'm cooking up some imaginary world in my head. When it comes to my column for aNewDomain on existential issues, it helps to be angry.
Jason Dias
I have a few projects on the proverbial back burners while I work out how to connect readers to current releases. For Love of Their Children is first in a potential series, with two novels already planned as follow-up. I have a story about racial, authoritarian violence, one about the ghosts of the Vietnam war, a story about a Martian mission post-climate-change, and an action-oriented military science-fiction story I'm considering serializing. Finally, way in the background, there's a physics romance: two people living quantum-entangled lives, never able to co-exist but aware of the potential of the other.
Jason Dias
Be careful about taking advice. There's a lot of it out there and you just have to figure out what works for you. There really aren't experts anymore. And there are plenty of folks looking to sell you their products and services. Just... be careful out there.
Jason Dias
I get to give my imaginary friends entire lives and, if I do my job write, they get to be your imaginary friends, too.
Jason Dias
I don't get writer's block. I have the opposite problem: so many ideas it's impossible to write them all down.
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