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Jenessa Gayheart

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The idea for the "Story of Eidolon" trilogy surfaced in 2008, and eight years later I had Inkwater Press publish the three books: "The Thousand Years Ghost," "Trees of Change," and "Journey to the Past."

In 2015, I sold a story to Aberrant Literature for their first volume of Sci-fi short story collections. ...more

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How do you deal with writer’s block?

Jenessa Gayheart I ride my inspiration like a wave. I love writing fiction, and have short stories accumulating on my facebook site as notes for anyone to read. If I d…moreI ride my inspiration like a wave. I love writing fiction, and have short stories accumulating on my facebook site as notes for anyone to read. If I don't have ideas coming for a story, I simply continue my personal journal. My own life and those around me offer a sort of non-fiction fiction-sounding story, and that sometimes branches out onto a limb of my creativity as a "what if" situation that becomes a full-blown storyline. But if I don't feel inspired despite how often I write about real life, I don't worry about it. That's how I deal with writer's block. I suppose that's a blessing of not having an agent and publisher who needs something done by a certain time. I don't feel that I'm not a writer simply because I'm blocked. I see that block as a symptom of having non-writer stresses in life that I need to take care of, not push through to get writing done.(less)

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What’s the best thing about being a writer?

Jenessa Gayheart This is going to sound funny, like maybe I'm trying to be poetic or perhaps I'm crazy. But this is how I see and enjoy being a writer:

Since Eidolon l…moreThis is going to sound funny, like maybe I'm trying to be poetic or perhaps I'm crazy. But this is how I see and enjoy being a writer:

Since Eidolon landed on me - which is how it felt when the idea hit me - I've considered that writing it was like bringing a new entity to the world.

I guess I could mention here that I am not religious in a traditional sense, but believe that intelligence and creation can exist without physical representation, maybe as guardian angels or miracles or even as unexplainable acts of malice or paranoia that manifest through us. Also as entire world orders and personalities within those worlds... without the ground, trees, mountains or oceans that we have defined as a "world."

So that is what I feel I do as a writer. I bring an intelligent entity to our physical world, that wants to be seen or experienced, or that wants to experience human emotional/mental processing as a part of its existence.

Weird, huh. I also name appliances, have full-blown conversations with my pets, and scold the ghosts in my house. So, take this weird description of what I like best about being a writer with whatever emotional condiment you need in order to make it cognitively palatable. (less)

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Since I started reading more last year, completing my 12 book challenge, (even though three of the books were one in "The Merlin Trilogy"), my inspiration has been residing in the worlds that stories offer. I like what my mind does when it wanders around in Neverwhere, or with Livinia and her creator, or Merlin, but then I want to share these experiences, and my co-workers are subject to spontaneo Read more of this blog post »

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“The important thing is to accept that there will be people who believe differently than you, and to learn to live with those people as a community despite the differences.”
― Jenessa Gayheart, The Story of Eidolon: Including "The Thousand Years Ghost," "Trees of Change," and "Journey to the Past"

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“They think they know the book by its cover, but the book knows what it is. Now he knew better; if the book never opens up and comes out, it can be warped to fit the image others see.

. . .No, a book wasn't invulnerable to the appearance of its cover, not by any means.”
― Ken Kesey, Sometimes a Great Notion

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