Ask the Author: Meghann Doyle
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Meghann Doyle
I might say it's choosing my own hours, or impending fame, but really it's the psychological benefits. I like to use my work to sort out my feelings. It's often that what I'm subjecting my characters to is an echo of something going on in my own life. Rather than dwelling on my problems, I have the opportunity to play them out, at least in metaphor through my characters. It's not that I often find proper solutions for my issues in this way, but I always feel better about it all.
Meghann Doyle
I don't often have writer's block, but when it happens, I pull out a blank piece of paper and play the "what if" game. The quality of the ideas may not be great, but making the effort usually helps. It's as though getting all the garbage ideas out of the way makes room for some quality ones. It's like cleaning stale leftovers out of the fridge. If that doesn't work I do something else; I take a walk or work on a different aspect of the project.
Meghann Doyle
The benefit of working as an independent is you're doing what you love. Every day I get to work on my story is a good day. Even when I'm tired, or struggling to make a deadline, it's a joy and deeply satisfying to share my imagination with others. It's passion driven work, I'm just playing along.
Meghann Doyle
Write. Write some more. Read everything you can get your hands on. Write some more. Practice makes perfect, and so does study. Immerse yourself in literature. Study a diversity of genres, and writers. If you study just one favourite author, you're learning how to be like them. By studying as many authors as you can, you're studying the craft, and you'll very quickly discover what you like, and don't like. You'll have a far easier time developing your own voice.
Meghann Doyle
I'm currently editing the script for volume two; "End's Shadow Caste: In the Shadow of the Wind Walker".
Meghann Doyle
I developed the idea for the "End's Shadow Caste" series over a number of years. I've always felt blessed, but more than a little uncomfortable by civil unrest and wars that take place in so many other places around the world, while we go to work and school, and live as though nothing's happening. I wanted to address those unsettled, guilty feelings. I wondered what would happen if the bottom fell out from under the first world. Where would that take the human race as a whole, if we were all very suddenly in the same boat.
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