Ask the Author: Christopher D. Ochs
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Christopher D. Ochs
Is there a blog website I can view your previous reviews?
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Christopher D. Ochs
Amber, before things got nasty. Definitely experiment with the world shifting powers!
Christopher D. Ochs
Three men, dressed in their best funereal garb and each wearing a signet ring embossed with runes from a long-dead language, entered the crypt at the stroke of midnight. When they emerged, they were only two -- one scouring out the last remnants of blood of the third lone ring.
Christopher D. Ochs
Join groups. Especially groups that have a feedback or critique session. Feedback is essential, or you simply delude yourself about how good or how bad your writing actually is.
Read your work aloud. Record it if possible, and play it back the audio. You won't believe the number of typos, bad grammar, and awkward sentence structures that uncovers that you would otherwise miss. Your editors will thank you.
Read your work aloud. Record it if possible, and play it back the audio. You won't believe the number of typos, bad grammar, and awkward sentence structures that uncovers that you would otherwise miss. Your editors will thank you.
Christopher D. Ochs
I am blessed to have two outlets for my creativity. One is the Lehigh Valley Storytellers Guild Story Circle. If I tell a story, and the audience reacts well to it, it gets written up. The last story I completed, I wrote in its entirety the day after I told it.
Christopher D. Ochs
Walk away, do some physical activity.
Write something else! Stuck in a short story? Begin that novel. Stuck in a novel? Write a short story or novella or a poem. But write!
Resist the temptation to play computer games. They deaden the mind, soul, and the creativity an author needs.
Write something else! Stuck in a short story? Begin that novel. Stuck in a novel? Write a short story or novella or a poem. But write!
Resist the temptation to play computer games. They deaden the mind, soul, and the creativity an author needs.
Christopher D. Ochs
Just wrapped up a Poe-esque horror short story, 'Eight', that will go into a GLVWG anthology out 3/15. Several other short stories are in the works for my own collection, hopefully out 9/15.
Christopher D. Ochs
After the 2nd of 6 nights of insomnia, I decided to do something constructive with the waking dreams and other fun stuff that comes from sleep deprivation. I started with a character, Pindlebryth, I had made up 7 years earlier, and the waking dreams and my sleep-deprived brain did the rest.
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