Ask the Author: Greta C. Wink
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Greta C. Wink
The best way to beat writer's block is to write every day, preferably around the same time, and only stop if you know what you're going to write next. Otherwise, it's really easy to procrastinate. I've been doing this lately, and I did it in college, and it's really helped. The worst way to beat writer's block is to play Angry Birds. That never works.
Greta C. Wink
Something that's never happened, or someone who's never existed outside of my own head, can give me incredible happiness.
Greta C. Wink
Right now I'm about 2/3 through another novella, THE FINAL SOLUTION, about a man who takes world peace into his own hands by hiring tens of thousands of people to convince the general population that they need to stop being jerks.
Greta C. Wink
Read, read, read, and write, write, write. Take every criticism with a grain of salt, but savor it. Don't reject any thought outright.
Greta C. Wink
Generally it's because I meet someone or see someone who is unusual, and I want to know all about them, but instead of asking them, I make it up. It started as early at 7th grade, when I wrote a series of stories about my school librarian brainwashing students and faculty in a ploy to take over the world.
Greta C. Wink
I was bartending for a movie night meetup event, and the "assistant host" was an unusual guy named Milton. I always wondered about him, as all he ever ordered was a pineapple juice, no ice, and he never smiled. One day the group was late showing up for the viewing, and I began to wonder what had happened to Milton...
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