Ask the Author: Ian D. Moore
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Ian D. Moore
Writing, for me, is more self-therapy than anything else. It is a means to remove my mind from the troubles of this world and immerse and create other worlds far removed. My "normal" life is far, far from my writing life trucking up and down the highways of the UK. It gives me much time to think. When my head becomes so full of thoughts, the writing allows me to vent those thoughts, hopefully into a story others might enjoy. While I never set out to write for monetary gain, the very fact that people have paid their hard-earned cash for my stories AND have enjoyed them to the point of leaving reviews never ceases to amaze me. It is a very humbling experience. The question isn't so much what is my favourite thing, but more what's not to like about the privilege, don't you agree?
Ian D. Moore
It hasn't happened yet, however, I'm only into book two so plenty of time. There is such a thing as over thinking though, sometimes if I can't get something to feel right in my head, I'll go write something completely different, say a poem, or recently a short collection of children's bedtime stories I just published. At the opposite end of the horror/thriller of my first novel and a million miles away from the second, even though I already knew what the second would be roughly. They say a change is as good as a rest, it is very true, let your mind wander and what you seek you will find, even if you have to wait awhile for it to come.
Ian D. Moore
For me, being able to let my imagination go, being able to put myself into the characters I create, to live their lives away from my own. For my potential fans, I hope they will take something from my stories, that they take them to the same places they take me as I write each line. To be able to invoke a range of feelings and emotions through the power of words alone, in any writer, is a gift and one, as a species, we should encourage.
Ian D. Moore
I find myself in a VERY big pond with some very big fish, I am not afraid to try and neither should anyone else be. If you can, ASK someone who has been writing for awhile, they are a wealth of information. Check and TRIPLE check your story before you submit to print, it's expensive to correct mistakes. Find someone to proof read for you, not related to you, who can give you an honest opinion good or bad and if it's bad, don't take it to heart, it will only make you write better in the end. First and foremost, ENJOY writing. I love to write, if my work pleases others that's a priceless bonus for me.
Ian D. Moore
My next full novel, working title of Being Within, still tossing up which way to take this story yet but I've a few ideas rolling about, I usually get an end before I get a middle and a beginning so there's a little more mind crunching to be done yet though I've penned the first 5k words already.
Ian D. Moore
I've never needed inspiration to write, anyone who knows me personally will know that I'm a man of very few spoken words, I PREFER to write, I find that I can express myself much better without confusion that way.
Ian D. Moore
It wasn't an idea as such, more of a challenge laid down by my sister to write a zombie story different to the others. That night, at work, I heard a news broadcast about Shale Gas Fracking under people's homes, from there on in, the story pretty much flowed.
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