Ask the Author: Logan Judy
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Logan Judy
My idea for the Rogue series came from a couple of influences, but largely it was a question: why do we always assume that people love superheroes? What if they were scared of them, and ultimately hated them? That's a question that hasn't been asked very often, and that's what led me to write the Rogue series.
Logan Judy
A lot of my inspiration comes from reading. I try not to take specific ideas from other books, but reading a really good book makes me excited, and I think "I want to write a book that good!", and so I set out to do that. Specific ideas for plot comes from all over the place, and mostly out of nowhere.
Logan Judy
I'm currently working on the third book of my Rogue series. In the time that I'm not working on that, I also have a standalone dystopia novel that was my NaNoWriMo 2014 project, as well as an epic fantasy story that I'm slowly developing. My priority is on the first of those.
Logan Judy
The first is to go indie; that gives you far more creative freedom. More than that, though, it's to write constantly. It's far too easy to get caught up in stuff like book marketing, social media, and networking when you haven't even written a book yet. There's a time and a place for that kind of stuff, but if you're a writer, your first and foremost task is to write. Everything else is a lower priority.
Logan Judy
You make up stuff and people pay you for it. That sounds a bit cheeky, but it's true. The best part of that to me is that there are really no hard and fast rules. As long as you're not stealing it, you can make up anything you want. That doesn't mean it'll sell, but you're free to do what you want with stories and characters, and to experiment with stuff that nobody has dared touch before. That's exciting.
Logan Judy
As counter-intuitive as it might seem, I deal with writer's block by writing. Generally, when I'm experiencing writer's block, it's that I can't figure out how to write a certain chapter or explain a certain character. When that happens, I write what I can. So I might go out of order and writer another chapter of the same story, or I might write in another story that I have ideas for. The brain works like a muscle, and once I get it warmed up on something else, I find that ideas come to me for that specific thing a lot easier.
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