Ask the Author: Nicholas Scott
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Nicholas Scott
My favorite thing, aside from the feeling of accomplishment (and somedays that feeling of accomplishment is the only thing that keeps me going) but the feedback from those who've read what I wrote, their enjoyment truly invigorates me, delights me and pushes me to write better. Not just for me, but for them.
Nicholas Scott
Writer's Block for me is usually remedied by starting something else. It's difficult,especially when you have a deadline, whether set or imagined when you want to have something done, but as long as you are writing, that's the important thing. Either that or power through it. Open that computer and pound out those words. You may hate what you've written but you wrote.
Nicholas Scott
My advice. #1 Read. Read as much as you can and as varied as you can. Read. Read. Read. I can't say it enough. And then Read what you write. Read it out loud. Listen to your characters and their dialogue. If it doesn't sound true to you, it won't sound true to your audience. It's all in the reading.
Nicholas Scott
I'nm currently writing several books. My main concern at the moment is the first book in my Edge of Night trilogy, Just One Bite which I hope to have completed by early next year. Then the sequel to A Kiss Is Just a Kiss, book two will be Kiss & Tell also due by early/middle 2015. Then there the second Fairweather High novel Fallback Guy which will be out late next year, if all goes according to plan. I'm also working on a Valentine short story/novella and a science fiction story called Operation Space Cadet which will be a cross between Ender's Game and Heinlein's Space Cadet.
Nicholas Scott
I have to sit down and push myself to write. It's usually at Starbucks with my frappuccino have gone and the computer open at the table and I've said my hellos to the regulars and then I open up the last chapter and reread it and ask them what's next.
Nicholas Scott
I don't know exactly how to answer that. If I were writing something "out there" then I think I'd have an answer. My stories are driven by characters and their interactions. Where the characters come from I don't know. They're just there. The relationships, the folly and fun all comes as I sit down and start writing. I've yet to be able to sit down with a formula or an outline and write from it. I sit down and all but ask my characters what's going to happen in the next 1000 or so words.
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