Ask the Author: Bruce Lee Bond
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Bruce Lee Bond
I delt with it long ago so I have to go back. Today I only need the time and space to write. Part of writer's block in my opinion is not having had the life experience to take on some characters.(this is speaking of fiction of course) When I still feel nothing coming on I might sit down and write a single moment, a scene, as if creating a door into the place I'm trying to find. For me the best things come as a surprise since I'm not a heavy plotter in advance, since any plot will be changed by the needs and often unexpected deeds of the characters. I love being surprised by my characters, and have had an entire novel pivot on the whim of a tertiary character who becomes a major protagonist on their own volition.
Bruce Lee Bond
Having you characters come to life and surprise you, and having someone you never would have touched otherwise tell you that your characters have entered their dreams. (As long as they're not a stalker)
Bruce Lee Bond
Get it out even if it sucks. Keep it up. You can edit later. Bounce it off other WRITERS, not your good friends who will either praise it or who are probaby unqualified to critique it. Go to critique groups, but don't get trapped and bound by genre. Fuck genre. Cross boundaries. Accept critical opinions but don't be cowed or bother being hurt by them. You're unique. Learn the rules so you can competently break them.
Bruce Lee Bond
My most recent first draft, which took only two months, is about the underworld of modern day Alaska with an actual un-caught and uncharged killer as one of the characters, fictionally crafted of course.
Bruce Lee Bond
That began so young I can't actually say. I resolved to be a writer at twelve years old, and have viewed the world as one ever since.
Bruce Lee Bond
Actually my most recent published book isn't my most recent, but The Broken Coast, which is part of a series spanning three different centuries was first seeded while studying the Barbary Coast at San Francisco State, and given birth with a dream from which Lorelei herself sprung to change the direction of my own life. Seeing girls I knew who moved to Alaska from Oregon at the same time I did during the boom of the pipeline who stepped into the trap of sexual slavery had a very powerful influence, and seeing some die had even a greater one.
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