Ask the Author: Ken Varnold
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Ken Varnold
I have stopped believing in it. I think it is more accurately called "writer's insecurity". When you find yourself in a story and realize you have lost your way, or don't have a way that is clear to you, anxiety and insecurity increase. I am still trying to learn to let the story speak to me, instead of me trying to speak to the story.
The other thing...be patient with yourself about it. It will happen, learn to live with it when it does and have faith it will take care of itself and, lo and behold, one day you are writing again.
The other thing...be patient with yourself about it. It will happen, learn to live with it when it does and have faith it will take care of itself and, lo and behold, one day you are writing again.
Ken Varnold
Freedom...I can create the world I want. I like to explore the darker sides of our nature, and in that way I can "go" where I choose. That feels like freedom to me.
Ken Varnold
I've learned what greater writers around and before me have said...it is work. You must get to the keyboard every day and work on your idea, whether a paragraph or 10 pages.
Ken Varnold
My next work speculates on the temptations of our daily life, specifically what happens when two people meet and fall in love...with the wrong person...
Ken Varnold
Not every story is worth telling. That is the first thing to sort out. I observe the world around me and once in a while I see something, and after thinking about it, realize there is "a place to go" with it.
Ken Varnold
The book, Urumqi, developed after the meteorite exploded over Russia in February, 2013. In a conversation about it with a friend, I wondered what would happen if a doomsday asteroid were actually discovered.
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