Ask the Author: Joseph LoGuidice
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Joseph LoGuidice
I like to use notebooks to keep my ideas in order and to write out thoughts. I try and stay focused on the feeling I want to resonate at the end of the story, and build around the feeling or effect I'm trying to create, then push on. This "effect" helps me to create ideas that work with the story's arc. Hey, sometimes writing is a slog, and sometimes it's like the wind.
Joseph LoGuidice
Expressing yourself, and in the process, learning what's really going on inside. What's even better? Being able to share that love with readers. I love my readers because I know that took the time out of their lives and gave it to me.
Joseph LoGuidice
Work your tail off, and treat your writing like it's your only profession even if it isn't. I have a friend who loves literature, and she once told me that a person isn't a writer until he is paid. She couldn't have been more wrong, and thank heavens I recognized that way back when. You're a writer in your heart and mind, but don't romanticize too much. Your ideas won't add up to a hill of beans until you utilize that blinking cursor.
Joseph LoGuidice
I've been writing out the bones of two ideas, but have settled on one. I have a family, now, so I must pinpoint. It's another novel - one about a recluse musician who is lulled back to the world by an aspiring guitar player who reminds him of himself. That's a very basic explanation, but it's an issue that, yes, is close to my heart. I've culled a portion of the story from the growing manuscript, and will attempt a short story publication based on the recluse and one of his teenage experiences.
Joseph LoGuidice
Garth Stein, a great best-selling writer who responded to one of my questions via email after I saw him wrote that a writer has to keep plugging and write from the heart. I believe him will all sincerity. I've been fortunate to have the "thing" that strikes my insides. I know that's what Garth Stein means when he refers to the heart because that's precisely where I feel it.
Joseph LoGuidice
Blue Baby was first published as a short story in 2010 in Toasted Cheese. I had come across an article about a nine-year old boy in Long Island, NY who had a disease called HLHS (hypoplastic left heart syndrome), and needed a heart transplant. The story brought me back to when I was a teenager looking to buy a car. I went to a house and met a beautiful blond girl in a sundress who had a thin, red scar between her chest. I came to find out she was born with a severe heart defect, and had endured several surgeries. You never know when or how the inspiration will strike, and I didn't question it when these two happenings combined and became my fuse.
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