Ask the Author: Alex Ames
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Alex Ames
Nothing to deal with, as I still have to encounter it. If I feel that one story I am writing on (and which I feel still has potential), I simply stop and pick the next one from my "Ideas" folder.
Alex Ames
Two things, very very different:
Being alone in the Cathedral of my Mind, listening to the stories my protagonists and antagonists tell me in the silence of a sleeping house.
Getting positive feedback from a complete stranger who just has spent ten hours reading your book.
Being alone in the Cathedral of my Mind, listening to the stories my protagonists and antagonists tell me in the silence of a sleeping house.
Getting positive feedback from a complete stranger who just has spent ten hours reading your book.
Alex Ames
Write. Write. Write. Edit. Edit. Edit. Publish. Start with next book. Repeat 20 times. Sit down, review the 20 books and decide whether you still want to write.
Alex Ames
I am a multi-tasker and always have various works in different stages of completion. Here is a snapshot of my activities in August 2014:
- Midterm edits to my second young adult pirate novel "Piratenkapitän" (only available in German, sorry about that, target audience is my own kids and their friends)
- Technical formating of a second Troubleshooter Novella (Working title: Private Trouble) to once more have a vehicle to push my full length Troubleshooter book forward.
- About halfway through the writing of my first science fiction horror novel (along the lines of 'The Faculty' meets 'Veronica Mars')
- And with low priority: structuring the second full-length Troubleshooter novel
- Preparing a second round of "Brilliant Actors" Amazon promotion and preparing Brilliant Actors for ePublication with Smashword when Amazons hold period runs out.
- Midterm edits to my second young adult pirate novel "Piratenkapitän" (only available in German, sorry about that, target audience is my own kids and their friends)
- Technical formating of a second Troubleshooter Novella (Working title: Private Trouble) to once more have a vehicle to push my full length Troubleshooter book forward.
- About halfway through the writing of my first science fiction horror novel (along the lines of 'The Faculty' meets 'Veronica Mars')
- And with low priority: structuring the second full-length Troubleshooter novel
- Preparing a second round of "Brilliant Actors" Amazon promotion and preparing Brilliant Actors for ePublication with Smashword when Amazons hold period runs out.
Alex Ames
This might sound like a strange answer: with me it is not about inspiration, it's about desperation.
Alex Ames
My most recent book "Brilliant Actors" takes my heroine Calendar Moonstone into the Hollywood Movie scene. When I originally conceptualised Calendar and her cat burglary adventures, some immediate setting ideas came to my mind in a sort of 'What-if-game': she breaks in and stumbles upon a dead body and becomes a suspect (made into my book "Brilliant Plan"), stealing the spectacular diamonds of a movie star and running into a fellow cat burglar competing for the same loot ("Brilliant Actors"). There are some more initial one-sentence plots I conceived and which are usually my litmus test for serialisation. And all I had to do then is to take a load of time and bring the storyline into reality.
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