Ask the Author: Bill Harvey
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Bill Harvey
when i was 12 years old, having always been an atheist and a scientist in my own mind, i heard myself think out of nowhere: i am God, and so is everyone else. I had no idea where it came from. All my life i tried to figure it out and eventually did. then i wrote the book and never published it. Last year i felt it was time, went back and revised it, Yana my editor and Lalita my wife and Nicole my daughter and my other colleagues helped me edit it, and here it is.
Bill Harvey
when i was 4 years old i did a story in cartoon form well actually i took pictures from magazines and pasted them onto a piece of paper in sequence and added a storyline with dialog and narration. Then i started to write short stories (very short). My father's band had a second trumpet player Billy Heyer who encouraged me to keep writing and said i was a writer and gave me books to read Salinger Camus Sartre etc. Without him i would not be a writer today.
Bill Harvey
a long time ago i started a novel and got 692 pages written and realized it was going to be a trilogy. i am back to it now and will be publishing it starting early next year as a series of 3 books.
Bill Harvey
if you can write 7 pages a day - nonjudgmentally just letting it flow out without nitpicking or editing, leaving that for later - that is true discipline. if work to make money doesn't let that happen then pick one day a week - for me it is Saturday - where you do nothing else but write.don't be discouraged no matter what happens, rejection, criticism, lack of self belief, whatever. look at those things as an observer without giving them any emotional weight.
Bill Harvey
the flow of letting go and nonjudgmentally writing whatever comes through is what i enjoy the most. but there are other things too. i love when somebody really gets lit up about something i wrote. and when i read something i wrote and like it that's good too. imagining that i have had even a little positive impact on the world and will have more in the future is what really keeps me going.
Bill Harvey
I go out in nature (i.e. my back deck :-)) and just take a vacation. i don't force myself to do anything just hang out and enjoy looking around. i take deep breaths and stretch my back gently and sometimes i get a satisfying pop. I am not trying for anything to happen as a result. i am goofing off. soon i get a thought that is important and i go inside and write it.
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