Ask the Author: Thomas Davis
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Thomas Davis
My favorite writer in many ways is Ursula LeGuin. The universe of earthsea is so well drawn that it seems like anyone would want to go there. I suppose I would want to be a wizard, but perhaps not in Roanoak itself. I would rather be in a place where my skills, integrity, and powers could lift up the common people on one of the islands, having congress with other wizards, but a little separate. And, of course, I would especially love to see, and maybe meet, the earthsea dragons.
Thomas Davis
Do what I do, read a lot, then read some more, and then write every single day even if you don't feel like it. Then rewrite, rewrite, rewrite. The Weirding Storm, A Dragon's Epic went through 14 drafts before the Editor got it in her hands, and then she improved the book considerably.
Thomas Davis
A new book of short stories called The Anyway School. The stories are based upon my experiences in the Indian controlled schools and tribal college movement in the United States.
Thomas Davis
I started The Weirding Storm, A Dragon Epic while I was reading John Keats' poem, Lamia. The idea of the serpent asking Hermes to turn it into a woman so that she could romance a young man was intriguing. That inspired me to start my story.
Thomas Davis
I seldom have writer's block, although it has happened. Mostly I sit down and write through the block. When we first moved back to Wisconsin to Sturgeon Bay, however, I couldn't seem to produce anything. I was getting really upset. What was going on? Although we had spent much of our married lives in Wisconsin, I seemed to be out of place. I kept trying to write, but nothing would come. Then, finally, I managed to produce a Shakespearean sonnet. That sonnet is being published this Spring in the Wisconsin Poets Calendar. One morning I got up, told myself, enough of this nonsense, and blew the writer's block away. During the night I had come up with one line that was in my head when I woke up, "As dark as night, as gray as slate, a bear. . ." and that let me sing the rest of the poem into a tablet. Writing it made me feel really good.
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