Ask the Author: Stephen P. Tryon
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Stephen P. Tryon
Three books: a collection of essays, a second edition of Accountability Citizenship (my first book), and a fiction space thriller I have been working on for 23 years. I am also working on a software application that will illuminate some of the lessons of Accountability Citizenship.
Stephen P. Tryon
Being a writer is empowering for me. I assert my voice. I can explore experiences I have had, and often uncover perspectives I did not have when I was living the experience. Others can accept or reject what I say, but I feel a kind of strength when I write things that are true to my beliefs and my experience of the world.
Stephen P. Tryon
Write every day. Submit your writing in places where others have to evaluate it, such as in op-eds, journals, etc. Read a lot and note how others use words.
Stephen P. Tryon
I have several "go-to" strategies for writer's block. I exercise, or take a nap. Sometimes I just do a mind map or unconstrained writing down of ideas as they hit me, without worrying about structure. Then, after I have written a bunch of ideas down, I study that paper and think about how the ideas could be connected
Stephen P. Tryon
Writing is an extension of thinking for me. I think about things I see and hear and experience. When my thoughts get too muddled for me to make sense of them, I explore them in writing to help sort them out. Occasionally, I will have a flash of insight, or a connection in my thoughts, that I think is worth trying to share with others, and that is another inspiration for me to put pen to paper so to speak.
Stephen P. Tryon
Following the news, and associating that with one of my favorite books (Gulliver's Travels).
Stephen P. Tryon
"Look at that lime-green sun, Andrea!" Donald exclaimed. A faint sense of unease told her she shouldn't look at the sun, and that it wasn't supposed to be lime-green, but Andrea realized with a shudder that she had suddenly lost the ability to correctly name the colors or, for that matter, to refuse anything Donald asked of her.
Stephen P. Tryon
I have been reading two books over the past (summer) months: Ghosts of Gold Mountain (Gordon Chang) and El Norte (Carrie Gibson). Ghosts is about the Chinese-American workers on the Central Pacific Railroad in the 19th century. El Norte is about the Spanish experience in the colonization of North America.
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