It’s a personal memoir so the story already existed. However the inspiration to put it down on paper was from a book called Unstrung Heroes, which was about another ten year old’s perspective, named Franz Lidz, who I grew up with, and who authored that book.
Arnie “Tokyo” Rosenthal – 17 June 2018 Continue reading
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I started their bedtime story “Once upon a time,” and my youngest responded with “THE WORLD BLOWDED UP!”
Marie Kammerer Franke – 13 June 2018 Continue reading
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When characters develop their own personalities like that it is extremely rewarding. It is as if they are doing the writing.
Jack Messenger – 9 June 2018 Continue reading
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That is a huge theme in the book. How it’s hard to see the people you love for what they are, good or bad. Your wife will probably never recognize your genius because she was in the bathroom with you that time you got food poisoning, the same way you’ll never see your best friend as an idiot because you’re wired to always take his side.
Mike Wehner – 5 June 2018 Continue reading
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If it’s going well, I don’t want to stop—I can edit later, but if I’m struggling, then I keep retracing my steps until I find my direction.
Linda I. Meyers – 1 June 2018 Continue reading
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Why yes I do, and it goes something like: incredible breakthrough, coffee, concern, amazed at my own thoughts, more coffee, hate my own thoughts, utter despair, bliss, cascading confusion, wing it, stronger coffee, and done.
Kyle Bagsby – 23 May 2018 Continue reading
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This was the basis for how magic works in my world. To make something happen you have to be able to imagine it with such clarity and focus that it comes in to being. I then imagined a world where this creativity was banned, or at least tightly controlled. Those two ideas fed everything else in the novel.
Luke Brady – 19 May 2018 Continue reading
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I wanted the novel to be historically accurate, however, it developed into a fictionalized version of what happened, how I felt, who I met, and remains in every way true to those components.
Alfred Cool – 11 May 2018 Continue reading
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I was standing in my dorm elevator panicking because I needed a story for my fiction workshop the next day and the one I slaved over for a week felt way too personal to share with a group of mostly strangers. I banged out this story in about two hours and, ironically, I think today it’s far more personal than that other story ever was.
Melanie Moyer – 11 May 2018 Continue reading
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