Ask the Author: S.J. Brown
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S.J. Brown
BIG STAKE centres on a series of crimes to do with gambling. The fallout from problem gambling in Tasmania is significant and I wanted to create a plot that explores the harm unfettered gambling creates.
S.J. Brown
By reading other great writers in the crime fiction genre.
S.J. Brown
Book #4 in the D.I. Mahoney series: am about halfway through the first draft and it's going well. This one is more of a psychological profile case.
S.J. Brown
Get a good store of 'bum-glue' and sit and write for extended periods of time. Then you are able to fully explore your ideas and push on with your manuscript.
S.J. Brown
Being in the zone where my characters are: all the background distractions vanish. It's as if I'm in another world just as when you're locked into the fictional world of one of your favourite writers. Time skips and you barely notice.
S.J. Brown
Although the dreaded block rarely strikes, I deal with it by asking "What if this happened next?" and then exploring that idea.
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