The IndieView

I write hard and fast; I sometimes write fast whilst hard. But for all our sakes, I won’t describe my process any further.

Tom Conrad – 13 August 2015 Continue reading →

I lock myself in a dark room (after the kids go to bed), pour a hot green tea, and blast music that fits the mood of the story. I’ll listen to the song until I can picture the scene and hear the characters in my head.

Brian Bandell – 9 August 2015 Continue reading →

I elaborated on the idea of what it means to lose someone and what hand you played in driving them away. It’s a powerful idea. But as Pablo Picasso once said, “An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought,” and I will add, by feeling. 

S. K. Kalsi – 8 August 2015 Continue reading →

For this particular book, I would like to target anyone who has suffered at the hand of an abuser and survived, or is trying to heal. I believe Zora can help with that.

Lisa W. Tetting – 2 August 2015 Continue reading →

As my guys returned to touring in 2003, seeing them up there, back on the big stages again playing arenas, the idea hit me to explore the twilight years of aging rock stars. Literally . . .

Jill Meniketti – 30 July 2015 Continue reading →

There is a little bit of me in Alex Mercer, but the characters are mainly fictitious. To me, it is much more fun to write about people you don’t know, including yourself, and people who don’t exist in reality.

Michael J. Brooks – 23 July 2015 Continue reading →

One has to be a story whisperer, teasing into its good graces, finding commonalities and understandings, and earning trust before daring to write.

Malcolm Campbell – 19 July 2015 Continue reading →

Partly from my own experience as a volunteer for Friends of the Earth and Greenpeace. I wanted to take certain arguments to logical extremes and see where they led.

Andrew Hanson – 16 July, 2015 Continue reading →