Steven Campbell
I don't really get writer's block per se.
I find myself coming to sentences or paragraphs that I've butchered and I struggle to put them straight. And if it's not coming I'll just go away. Come back in 30 minutes from doing whatever and it's fine. Or come back the next day.
For writing my novels, I find it's good to switch projects now and then so I don't get burnt out.
I have to be having fun or I'm going to take a break. If I'm not having fun, no one reading it will be having fun. You can be pretty certain if something funny or stupid happened in my writing, I was sitting here smiling when I wrote it.
I find myself coming to sentences or paragraphs that I've butchered and I struggle to put them straight. And if it's not coming I'll just go away. Come back in 30 minutes from doing whatever and it's fine. Or come back the next day.
For writing my novels, I find it's good to switch projects now and then so I don't get burnt out.
I have to be having fun or I'm going to take a break. If I'm not having fun, no one reading it will be having fun. You can be pretty certain if something funny or stupid happened in my writing, I was sitting here smiling when I wrote it.
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M.Y. Khan
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Steven Campbell:
Sir, I love your work and can’t wait for the next installment, but in the meantime I wanted to ask what your writing and editing processes are like. Do you have a fixed schedule? Do you come up with the story ad-lib or do you make a guideline? And the editing. You mentioned listening to it in order to work out the kinks. What is that like? I would really appreciate it if you could shed some light on your process.
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