Ask the Author: Oren Hammerquist
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Oren Hammerquist
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Oren Hammerquist
I watch movies. They always inspire me to write. Also, get out and just watch people.
Oren Hammerquist
I am working to add some stories to my short story collection coming out in September. Many of these works are previously published, but I want to add some volume. This falls largely into the romance genre. I like to say the stories in "Love Transcends" are literary romance, not modern romance. They are love stories, not lust stories.
I have a short story coming out this month titled "Mining Chernobyl." I am working on a novel to tell the story behind that story that I am tentatively titling "Orion's Forge." This is science fiction focusing on the people surround the first galactic, human war. This is very much a social science fiction rather than hard science fiction.
Following that, it will be time to complete my thesis. The tentative title of this (a "significant work of fiction") is "A Year and a Day." This will focus on a man that puts a young teenager in the hospital following a robbery. He is released while waiting trial into the custody of the mother of that boy. Over the year, he changes his life. The title references an old requirement that a person must die within a year and a day for assault to become murder. After the man turns his life around, the boy dies.
I have a short story coming out this month titled "Mining Chernobyl." I am working on a novel to tell the story behind that story that I am tentatively titling "Orion's Forge." This is science fiction focusing on the people surround the first galactic, human war. This is very much a social science fiction rather than hard science fiction.
Following that, it will be time to complete my thesis. The tentative title of this (a "significant work of fiction") is "A Year and a Day." This will focus on a man that puts a young teenager in the hospital following a robbery. He is released while waiting trial into the custody of the mother of that boy. Over the year, he changes his life. The title references an old requirement that a person must die within a year and a day for assault to become murder. After the man turns his life around, the boy dies.
Oren Hammerquist
Don't skimp on the basics. Make sure you have a good understanding of proper grammar, proper English. Yes, you can break the rules, but you have to know what the rules are and why you are breaking them.
Oren Hammerquist
By far, finishing that first book and seeing it for sale. Maybe I will change my opinion if I strike it rich with a book one day. For now, even self publishing, seeing your book out there with your picture is amazing. You work so hard to get it out, to get anything accepted, and acceptance is like a drug. Get one thing published and you'll never want to stop.
Oren Hammerquist
The best thing you can do is get out and exercise. This doesn't mean go to the gym; all you need to do is take a walk around the block. It gets the blood flowing.
Even better, go somewhere where there are people. What are their stories? What can you tell the world about them?
Even better, go somewhere where there are people. What are their stories? What can you tell the world about them?
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