Ask the Author: Nathanael Green
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Nathanael Green
The best thing about being a writer is the daydreaming. Just sitting and playing out scenarios and getting to know the personalities and backgrounds of new, exciting people who will have (or have had) amazing adventures.
And with the daydreaming comes the sketching and drawing, taking notes and asking questions. Doodling in a notebook.
I get to explore new worlds and new people, and then get to share them with other people. And all put together, it's a pretty great gig.
And with the daydreaming comes the sketching and drawing, taking notes and asking questions. Doodling in a notebook.
I get to explore new worlds and new people, and then get to share them with other people. And all put together, it's a pretty great gig.
Nathanael Green
How don't I??
I've wanted to write as far back as my memory goes (though that's getting shorter these days!).
And daily, there's inspiration everywhere. In the books I read and the stories I hear and see. In the conversations with strangers and loved ones. In the way the sunlight shifts the color of someone's hair.
For me, I think it's just observation and curiosity. When I take a moment to look around and wonder about life, there's no end to the things I want to try to play with in writing. And writing is how I can sort through my thoughts and questions and pose new ones that I just don't have answers to.
But often this question is just the veil for a more practical question: how do you actually sit down and put words on the page?
And the answer to that one, for me, is to remember how I feel after I've written. I feel happier after I've written. So any time I'm not "feeling inspired" to actually do the activity, I remember how I will feel once I'm 10 minutes in and for the rest of the day after that.
I've wanted to write as far back as my memory goes (though that's getting shorter these days!).
And daily, there's inspiration everywhere. In the books I read and the stories I hear and see. In the conversations with strangers and loved ones. In the way the sunlight shifts the color of someone's hair.
For me, I think it's just observation and curiosity. When I take a moment to look around and wonder about life, there's no end to the things I want to try to play with in writing. And writing is how I can sort through my thoughts and questions and pose new ones that I just don't have answers to.
But often this question is just the veil for a more practical question: how do you actually sit down and put words on the page?
And the answer to that one, for me, is to remember how I feel after I've written. I feel happier after I've written. So any time I'm not "feeling inspired" to actually do the activity, I remember how I will feel once I'm 10 minutes in and for the rest of the day after that.
Nathanael Green
I don't believe in writer's block as its own thing.
Yes, sometimes it's hard to write. But that's not the mystical "writer's block." That's fear of failure, or a grumpy inner editor, or lack of confidence, or a knotted plot, or just being tired. Or a million other things.
And the way around it is to just keep writing. I say, "Screw it. I have to write," and I put one word down, then the next.
Yes, sometimes it's hard to write. But that's not the mystical "writer's block." That's fear of failure, or a grumpy inner editor, or lack of confidence, or a knotted plot, or just being tired. Or a million other things.
And the way around it is to just keep writing. I say, "Screw it. I have to write," and I put one word down, then the next.
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