Do you remember the first story you ever wrote?
If I go back to a little kid under ten years of age, I wrote a horror story. It was a horror story to a ten year old, anyway. It was two pages handwritten. My target audience, my Mother, who enjoyed it immensely if I remember. The only thing I remember about the story is it was based in a graveyard.
What is your writing process?
It has changed over the years. The first full novel I completed, Eclipse of the Triple Moons, the process involved seeing a photograph from inside a tunnel taken at Glacier National Park. When I looked at the stones along the wall outside the tunnel, I could make out faces. I decided on creating a fantasy story about a boy searching for the mountain king. But, that was just a germ of an idea. I then researched people, customs, cultures, and how to write a novel. Then I placed in my mind the three act structure and outlined the beginning few chapters and how I envisioned the ending. From there I would write a few chapters and then outline the next six to ten chapters and write them to come to an exciting climax nine months later.
The second book I outlined immediately after finishing book one. But, since I made major re-work on book one, I had to go back and re-outline book two before beginning to write.
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