#KnowYourAuthors 1 Listen to music while you write? Have a specific writing playlist? Made it yourself, or for you?
I used to, but it had to be instrumental. If there were words, I couldn't write. Now, nothing. No music. Just me and the screen. Anything more is distracting.
#KnowYourAuthors 2 Do you have a title in mind for your WIP (work in progress) as soon as you start? Do you feel like you need a title to get started?
Generally speaking, I do. I think a title becomes a statement of theme and organizing principle. It's me telling myself what the story is really about.
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#KnowYourAuthors 3 Who inspires you as a writer? Is it other writers? People in your life?
My writer's group pushes me to keep producing material, keep honing it, keep pursuing ideas. They're really great. I got extremely lucky with how we ended up with that group.
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I haven't written anything but messages for decades, but when I did write other stuff, I had quite a pantheon of people who were inspiring and that includes 3 English teachers, one of which taught in Junior High, for he put me on the road to fancying the essay/short story.
The authors I've read were considerably longer winded but they all had artful turns of phrase, and those authors run the gamut of humorists through scientists and among scientists, those who wrote non-fiction (okay, so that's Isaac Asimov). Mark Twain, Ogden Nash, Richard Armour, Bennett Serf...Benchley...ya, too many to count.
