Jeff Deck, Author & Novel Coach
Tell the story you're meant to tell.
This is a question that people ask famous authors a lot, and some of them, like Stephen King, get a bit tired of the question. After all, the *where* seems to an author a lot less important than the *what*, the material you can pull from these “ideas” to mold into an actual freaking story. Ideas can come from anywhere, right? Even the most banal gesture or advertisement or association could lead to an interesting tale.
Continue reading “Where do you get your ideas?”
Something that I’ve been looking forward to literally for years is about to make its debut on Sunday evening. That’s when HBO’s 10-part adaptation of George R.R. Martin’s A Game of Thrones begins to air. It’s the first book in a masterful fantasy series that I and many of my friends, both male and female, have enjoyed, and we’re all eagerly awaiting how the screen edition will turn out.
According to one writer at the New York Times, however, that latter half of my Martin-loving friends apparently doesn’t exist. Continue reading “A Shared Kingdom”