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Humans are engaged in a seemingly paradoxical quest to devote a ton of intellect toward developing technologies to eliminate the need for said intellect. For example, we can have food delivered to our front door at the touch of a virtual button, which creates less incentive to cook or understand how our food is sourced. Our Dried Voices explores what happens when this quest is extended to the point when humans don’t need to think at all in order to sustain their lives.

Greg Hickey – 10 August 2018 Continue reading →

I open myself to ideas and images and walk. The story ideas come to me during this time as well as solutions to the problems arising in my writing. After I finish walking for the day, I use a yellow paper pad and jot down my thinking so as not to lose it.  

Diane Davies – 8 August 2018 Continue reading →

For me, the characters always come first. It’s as though I’m meeting someone for the first time, and he or she reveals him or herself to me in his or her own time.

Tracie Barton-Barrett – 18 July 2018 Continue reading →

I want my work to be easy for everyone to digest – however easy or difficult the topic might be – so that it can have more of an impact. If my writing can’t be understood then I haven’t done my job.

Jack Martin 13 July 2018 Continue reading →

In 2014 Booktrust surveyed 1500 adults and found that 36% give up on books because they get bored. I think we need more high-octane, gripping, blistering-paced reads to reach this demographic. I’m actually part of this demographic. I give up on loads of books because I get bored. I want to write books that no one could ever say are boring.

Matt Walker – 8 July 2018 Continue reading →

I don’t know how many other writers do it this way but I see a movie in my head. I see the setting, meet the characters, I hear the dialogue, I watch whole scenes play out, and if I think the movie in my head is good, I start writing it as a book. 

Scott MacDonald – 25 June 2018 Continue reading →

Yes. I have never killed any character before, so the first death was really difficult to me. I stopped writing the first book because I didn’t want to do it. In the end, I gathered my courage and did it. It was awful and I was really sad about it, but I did it. 

Maria Vermisoglou – 21 June 2018 Continue reading →

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 →

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 →