Ask the Author: Michael James Gallagher
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Michael James Gallagher
Hi JR The book will hit the streets on my 60th birthday, April 10, 2015. Nice to be in touch. I could send you a pre-release PDF if you felt you had time or desire to review near the release date. Let me know. Do you have a blog? We could exchange interviews on our blogs too.
Michael James Gallagher
Lively creative writing strategies spawn deliciously readable passages. This article introduces a novel way of dressing your characters. As well, it demonstrates the importance of the energy level and implication of the writer.
Sitting down in front of your laptop again! No inspiration to write! Get concrete. It doesn’t matter what you write. The crux of the matter is just to write. Let’s dress a ‘babe’, your protagonist, for a tango outing.
Some people say, ‘you are what you eat’. I ‘dunno’ about that. I love writing about food. I get the writer’s ‘munchies’ just thinking about it. Hey, focus on one thing at a time. Eating and food occupy the topic for another day.
Dressing people makes them cool. I had kids and never had any spare ‘moolah’ for clothing. I think that is why I love dressing my characters. What I can’t easily explain is why I love dressing women in my books. I don’t know. People just don’t make the grade when it comes to clothes, but creating a svelte, willowy woman who turns heads as she glides across a tango floor turns me on.
When I taught, I always thought if I feel bored, my students must be bored stiff. The same principle applies to writers. When you write focus on the stuff, you love first. The more challenging, less clear aspects of your work will fall into place as your muse takes over. So, now I have to find some things I love. I don’t know about you but I am 50 % voyeur. Beautiful women turn me on. You don’t have to be a man to say that. Do you know how many women read Cosmopolitan Magazine? I don’t, but I do know that many women read it. Guess what! The ‘mag’ is chock full of gorgeous women.
Let’s go to it! The scene is a tango ballroom in Buenos Aires. Your character needs to make an impression. My fingers are tingling just thinking about it. First, those black stilettos, tall heels, reaching up and double-strapped around the ankles under calves coated in slinky, silver-flecked, black metallic nylons.
You got the idea. Too many ‘how-to manuals’ for writers tell you to make lists of clothes for your characters. What could be drearier than making lists? Writing the stiletto stuff made me ‘hot’. Heat communicates. You are pumping up the creative juices. That’s the trick. It doesn’t matter if you ever use the scene. What does matter? You are on the way to 1000 words and having fun. A writer enjoying his craft will communicate his pleasure, in this case sensuous pleasure, to his readers.
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Sitting down in front of your laptop again! No inspiration to write! Get concrete. It doesn’t matter what you write. The crux of the matter is just to write. Let’s dress a ‘babe’, your protagonist, for a tango outing.
Some people say, ‘you are what you eat’. I ‘dunno’ about that. I love writing about food. I get the writer’s ‘munchies’ just thinking about it. Hey, focus on one thing at a time. Eating and food occupy the topic for another day.
Dressing people makes them cool. I had kids and never had any spare ‘moolah’ for clothing. I think that is why I love dressing my characters. What I can’t easily explain is why I love dressing women in my books. I don’t know. People just don’t make the grade when it comes to clothes, but creating a svelte, willowy woman who turns heads as she glides across a tango floor turns me on.
When I taught, I always thought if I feel bored, my students must be bored stiff. The same principle applies to writers. When you write focus on the stuff, you love first. The more challenging, less clear aspects of your work will fall into place as your muse takes over. So, now I have to find some things I love. I don’t know about you but I am 50 % voyeur. Beautiful women turn me on. You don’t have to be a man to say that. Do you know how many women read Cosmopolitan Magazine? I don’t, but I do know that many women read it. Guess what! The ‘mag’ is chock full of gorgeous women.
Let’s go to it! The scene is a tango ballroom in Buenos Aires. Your character needs to make an impression. My fingers are tingling just thinking about it. First, those black stilettos, tall heels, reaching up and double-strapped around the ankles under calves coated in slinky, silver-flecked, black metallic nylons.
You got the idea. Too many ‘how-to manuals’ for writers tell you to make lists of clothes for your characters. What could be drearier than making lists? Writing the stiletto stuff made me ‘hot’. Heat communicates. You are pumping up the creative juices. That’s the trick. It doesn’t matter if you ever use the scene. What does matter? You are on the way to 1000 words and having fun. A writer enjoying his craft will communicate his pleasure, in this case sensuous pleasure, to his readers.
http://www.michaeljamesgallagherautho...
Michael James Gallagher
Self satisfaction.
Michael James Gallagher
Read, read, read and scrbble down all of your ideas, even the ones you think are silly. Write 50 words a day and pick up the pace to reach a goal. Write every day.
Michael James Gallagher
Eureka! Writing the second book in my Spy Stories and Tales of Intrigue Series fills my days now. I am in the fourth and hopefully lassssst edit. What's the title? Send me a messsage on Goodreads with a great title suggestion and I might send you a free copy of the new book. I'll surely send you some sample chapters when the book comes to market.
Michael James Gallagher
Life inspires fiction. I am always using a great plotting program called Scapple. When I read the news, something might strike me as a good place to start a story and I build a quick skeleton for a story to be expanded upon at a later date.
Michael James Gallagher
In the months following September 11th, the United States was looking for Osama Bin Ladin without success. Just after Christmas, the Boxing Day tsunami struck Aceh Province in Indonesia and many other parts of the world. With all due respect for the families of those injured or killed in that disaster, possible events linking these two calamities started a chain reaction in my head. What if a powerful nation possessed the ability to create tsunamies? Tsunami Connection, my debut thriller, grew from these speculations.
Just after the catastrophe, US Military helicopters had access to Aceh Province. Evidence suggests that the Aceh region is one of the earliest centers of Islam. Some people might have believed Osama was hiding in Aceh Province,What if the tsunami was created to permit soldiers to have free reign in an otherwise inaccessible region to capture Osama there?
Just after the catastrophe, US Military helicopters had access to Aceh Province. Evidence suggests that the Aceh region is one of the earliest centers of Islam. Some people might have believed Osama was hiding in Aceh Province,What if the tsunami was created to permit soldiers to have free reign in an otherwise inaccessible region to capture Osama there?
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