Ask the Author: Mel Ryane
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Mel Ryane
Promoting "Teaching Will: What Shakespeare and 10 Kids Gave Me That Hollywood Couldn't" (Familius) is a lot of work. Also, submitting essays.
Mel Ryane
Just put your butt in the chair and write badly. The next day edit. Then write more. Badly. Carry on.
Mel Ryane
My writing usually starts with a question. What would happen if...? Why did she do that...? Let's say, he couldn't..."
Then I plumb for answers and, this is the glory of fiction, make up truthful stuff.
Then I plumb for answers and, this is the glory of fiction, make up truthful stuff.
Mel Ryane
I can do it when I want. For a long time I was an actor and that's near impossible to do alone.
Mel Ryane
Well, this might sound ridiculous but, so far, I haven't had it. When I sit to write, I think of myself as going to work. I don't think bus drivers get bus driver block, or dental hygienists have a freeze up over an over an open mouth. I find a spark and write, knowing it will be bad; but that's what revision is all about.
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