Ask the Author: Jeff Young
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Jeff Young
Don't be a one trick pony. If you have other ideas, use them until you see a way back into your focus item. Have a fun project to go along with your work project and write to both. Find out when you get ideas through observing when you are more creative and then write down what you imagine for later use. Talk to other writers. Research for your work, coming at it obliquely may open the door. Don't forget why you write.
Jeff Young
Watching what you write effect someone else.
Jeff Young
Just do it and find the way that works for you. I stick headphones on, turn up the music and dive in. Do something you wouldn't ordinarily do. I wouldn't have guessed I would have a book where most of it is from a woman's viewpoint. You grow by trying. Finally, just write. We live in such a wonderful age now that even as I stumble along and some of words don't come out the way I intend, the technology is so forgiving you can fix things in a second. You can move whole chapters, viewpoints and more around with a flick of your fingers. That's power right there. That means its even easier to make amazing things and it gets rid of more excuses not to.
Jeff Young
- A story about possessed wood
- A story about a chatbot obsessed with saving the Opportunity Rover
- Rewriting a noir set in a cyclinder world with Voodoo influences
- Expanding the Kassandra Leyden novella I wrote into a novel
- A story about a chatbot obsessed with saving the Opportunity Rover
- Rewriting a noir set in a cyclinder world with Voodoo influences
- Expanding the Kassandra Leyden novella I wrote into a novel
Jeff Young
By noticing little ideas that end up fitting with other ones until I feel I have enough for a story. By trying to be observant.
Jeff Young
Awhile ago, a friend approached me about doing a story for an anthology that was about magic and steampunk. I told her I wondered if the two really went together and I wasn't sure about writing something. A week later, I pitched her a story about two characters who dealt with the spiritualism aspect of magic, specifically contacting the dead, and Kassandra Leyden was born. Since then her adventures have grown enough to fill a book, Spirit Seeker. Airships, automatons and alligators. The unknown won't leave her alone.
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