Ask the Author: Tom King
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Tom King
Narnia. No question. I've always wanted to talk to horses and dogs.
Tom King
He slowly opened the cabinet door and peered inside. It was gone; the peanut butter jar was empty!
Tom King
Do something else until you get an idea, then sit down and write.
Tom King
The short commute to work.
Tom King
If you want to be a writer, write. Set yourself a minimum number of words per day to write. Four hundred to a thousand words a day is a good baseline. On the Internet, start yourself a blog and post at least once per week. Build a readership. You'll find out soon enough whether you can write interesting stuff or not. Your readers will let you know.
Tom King
Ghostwriting frantically to keep the lights on and revising and preparing two books for publication - Swimming Lessons, a humor book about my career at summer camp, and Fixers, a mainstream novel about co-dependency and the politics of the children's mental health industry. It's better than it sounds.
Tom King
I get ideas for books and stories bouncing around in my head and I write them down. Once in a while, I put one of the ideas together into a blog entry, article or book. Forum debates often give me ideas for political blogs and such. When I fix something around the house, I take pictures and write up how I did it for a how-to blog I write.
Tom King
My first published book came about because I wound up doing a charity golf tournament for the nonprofit organization where I was PR director. I tried to find a book on the subject. There wasn't one, so I collected the information, created a workshop syllabus and then taught a couple of workshops on the subject. I sold the syllabus online for a while. Got a call one day from Emerson & Church in Boston and they asked me to turn my syllabus into a book and a year later it was done.
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