I’ve just updated my website to include a Behind the Book section for The Way We Fall. For those who like to actually see an author’s inspirations, I’m including several photographs from my trip to Nova Scotia (where the book … Continue reading
Previous TWWF inspiration posts: The Stand, The Forest of Hands and Teeth, Doomsday Book, and Life As We Knew It. You’d think, once I had an idea, a sense of meaning, and an understanding of how I wanted to present … Continue reading
Previous TWWF inspiration posts: The Stand, The Forest of Hands and Teeth, and Doomsday Book. So, The Stand and The Forest of Hands and Teeth pointed me toward the idea for The Way We Fall, and Doomsday Book helped me … Continue reading
Not long ago, I was discussing with a fellow author the various sorts of odd research we’ve done that might raise a few eyebrows (or perhaps suspicions of wrong-doing) if someone who didn’t know we were writers looked at our … Continue reading
Previous TWWF inspiration posts: The Stand and The Forest of Hands and Teeth After my Forest of Hands and Teeth-inspired nightmare and subsequent decision that I needed to write a plague book, I started picking up novels here and there … Continue reading
2011 has been an interesting year — a year of being in the middle of things. I didn’t start any new books (other than a sequel that continued an existing story), I didn’t sell any new books (not really surprising, … Continue reading
Since I’ve been talking this month about the elements I need to make sure a new story idea is ready to be (and warrants being) written, I figured it might be useful if I also shared the tools I use … Continue reading
Previous TWWF inspiration post: The Stand It makes sense for me to bring up this second book that helped inspire The Way We Fall immediately after The Stand, because the two basically took a tag team approach to convincing me … Continue reading
This is the last element of an idea that I need if I’m going to turn that idea into a book, and it’s probably the most important, but also the hardest to reach. The other elements I’ve talked about — … Continue reading
As discussed earlier, before I get started writing a brand new idea, I need a main character with an arc and a compelling problem that character can take steps to solve. Sounds like a whole book right there, doesn’t it? … Continue reading
