Ask the Author: Sean Walter
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Sean Walter
Write. Write all you can about something that thrills and excites you. Write until you despise it, until you question your motives, until your hand doesn't function the way it used to and you catch yourself wanting to keep phrases that witty people said in a special place for you to recall later. Write until you're certain it's finished, or at least finished enough, then put it down and walk away.
Write something else if you like. Go on an adventure. Get lost in a book you've always loved or an entirely new one. Then, when some time has passed and you've forgotten the finer points of your story, come back and read what you had written. Edit. Re-write. Accidentally maim your plot. Find a way to fix it. Keep plugging at it until you're proud of what it is, what it says, what you've accomplished.
And then set it aside, and do it all over again.
Write something else if you like. Go on an adventure. Get lost in a book you've always loved or an entirely new one. Then, when some time has passed and you've forgotten the finer points of your story, come back and read what you had written. Edit. Re-write. Accidentally maim your plot. Find a way to fix it. Keep plugging at it until you're proud of what it is, what it says, what you've accomplished.
And then set it aside, and do it all over again.
Sean Walter
I study things that interest me. I think about bizarre situations and even stranger people and try to see life the way they do. Mostly I just have fun with it.
Sean Walter
I skip sleep, followed by an obscene amount of bad coffee – the type usually found in all-night diners. I attempt to maintain a subtly delusional frame of mind and I write what I need to write, or, failing that, I write what comes to me.
I also keep a list of story ideas and single fantastic lines in either my phone or journal so that I can gain some inspiration when the muse is being fickle.
I also keep a list of story ideas and single fantastic lines in either my phone or journal so that I can gain some inspiration when the muse is being fickle.
Sean Walter
Personally, I enjoy hearing people talk about stories and characters that, until a very short time ago, only existed in my imagination. Now it's as if I'm watching them breathe and live through the examinations and commentaries of readers. It makes me incredibly, unfathomably happy.
Sean Walter
I'm currently finishing and editing my first full novel, Moribund, an excerpt of which can be found at the end of A Glimpse into Madness.
Moribund is a story from the point of view of many characters detailing their lives as society collapses around them. It spans from the year 2032 to 2076 at it's current point, jumping time frames almost every chapter to further explore the character's lives and the setting. There's a great deal more to it, of course. Tragedy, greed, deception, insanity, cannibalism, and more are all there, and each is great fun to explore.
Moribund is a story from the point of view of many characters detailing their lives as society collapses around them. It spans from the year 2032 to 2076 at it's current point, jumping time frames almost every chapter to further explore the character's lives and the setting. There's a great deal more to it, of course. Tragedy, greed, deception, insanity, cannibalism, and more are all there, and each is great fun to explore.
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