Ask the Author: Nat Russo
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Nat Russo
This will sound like a cop out, but the way I get inspired to write is by writing. That's the only way it's going to happen predictably. I've found that if I wait around for the mood to strike, it's too hit-or-miss to produce work in a professional manner, according to the publication schedule I've set for myself.
I'm a firm believer that the muse only visits writers who are writing.
I'm a firm believer that the muse only visits writers who are writing.
Nat Russo
I just completed a novelette (The Road To Dar Rodon), and I'm in the process of completing the story board for Necromancer Falling, the sequel to my bestselling portal fantasy Necromancer Awakening.
Nat Russo
The best thing about being a writer, for me, is being able to contribute to the world of ideas. I'm not necessarily right all of the time, but at the very least it allows me to get a public hearing.
Nat Russo
I rarely have a "book idea", per se. I get little snippets, or situations/scenes that I find interesting. Sometimes I get bits of dialogue that I really want to include somewhere. It's kind of like opening a box of jigsaw puzzle pieces. My ideas are those pieces, and it takes time for them to mature in my mind (sometimes years) before they reveal the entire picture they're a part of.
Nat Russo
Give yourself permission to suck. Because you're going to suck at first. A lot. This is a craft. In order to get to the point where you're producing passable material, you have to work at it. The Universe isn't going to hand it to you.
Nat Russo
I've always felt that writer's block is a sign I'm not writing what I should be writing at that moment in time. In 20+ years of writing, I've never gone through a time when I simply couldn't write ANYTHING. I've merely gone through times when I couldn't write what I WANTED to write at that moment.
When I encounter this in a work-in-progress, I've found it helps to skip around. I don't always write in a linear fashion. On occasion, it helps to skip ahead (or go backwards).
When I encounter this in a work-in-progress, I've found it helps to skip around. I don't always write in a linear fashion. On occasion, it helps to skip ahead (or go backwards).
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