Ask the Author: Jule Owen
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Jule Owen
Thanks for the question Missy. I'm so glad you enjoyed 'The Boy Who Fell from the Sky'.
I get inspiration to write from lots of random places, including other writers, not all of them science fiction writers, films, art, plays, music, and talking to people. A lot of the ideas in my novels come from my love affair with science. I read a lot of popular science journals, like the New Scientist, and books by people like physicist Michio Kaku, who try to imagine where science and technology is going in the future.
I get inspiration to write from lots of random places, including other writers, not all of them science fiction writers, films, art, plays, music, and talking to people. A lot of the ideas in my novels come from my love affair with science. I read a lot of popular science journals, like the New Scientist, and books by people like physicist Michio Kaku, who try to imagine where science and technology is going in the future.
Jule Owen
It wouldn't be a mystery if I told you...
Jule Owen
I’ve been reading about futurology and climate change for years and they seeped into my subconscious. I liked the idea of exploring possible futures based on the non-fiction I’d be reading. To do that I needed Mathew Erlang, my main character, to be able to jump forward into the future to see how things turn out, hence it became a time travel novel.
Jule Owen
Stuff going on in the news, especially about science and innovation, inspires me. Reading something amazing inspires me.
Jule Owen
"The Moon at Noon", Book 3 (final part) of the House Next Door trilogy
Jule Owen
1) Show people your stuff and learn to take feedback and be grateful for it
2) Get to know other writers, especially in your genre
3) The first draft is about 10% of what you need to do. 90% of the best version of that book you can write is in the re-writes
4) The obvious one: read, especially the books you would most like to write
5) Learn to take rejection. Not everyone is going to like your stuff and that's ok.
2) Get to know other writers, especially in your genre
3) The first draft is about 10% of what you need to do. 90% of the best version of that book you can write is in the re-writes
4) The obvious one: read, especially the books you would most like to write
5) Learn to take rejection. Not everyone is going to like your stuff and that's ok.
Jule Owen
You get to create world's and decide what happens in them.
Jule Owen
I don't really get writer's block, or I haven't so far. There's so many other things pulling me away from writing every day that when I do actually get to sit down and write, I'm just grateful and I get on with it.
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