Ask the Author: Eric Shonkwiler
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Eric Shonkwiler
Expect to write failures. Write bad stories, bad novels, bad poems, but write them. It took about 300,000 words of crap before I started to write anything worthwhile. You have to open the pipes a while before you can expect them to run pure.
Eric Shonkwiler
I'm preparing my second novel for publication, coming out next fall.
Eric Shonkwiler
There's no such thing, as far as the common definition. There is no titanic shift in your brain that will keep you from writing. Being stuck will happen, and often, and there are three courses of action:
1. Write through it. Write crap, write drivel, but write.
2. Cut back on the manuscript until you're sure of what's come before. My most common blocks come from subconsciously knowing that what I've put down before was a mistake. Once I cut, and start fresh, the writing flows.
3. Step away. Take a walk, get a drink, go camping. Come back. Write.
1. Write through it. Write crap, write drivel, but write.
2. Cut back on the manuscript until you're sure of what's come before. My most common blocks come from subconsciously knowing that what I've put down before was a mistake. Once I cut, and start fresh, the writing flows.
3. Step away. Take a walk, get a drink, go camping. Come back. Write.
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