Ask the Author: Shane Lusher
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Shane Lusher
Definitely. We've explored a lot about our own morailty, let's check out what the chimps are doing. Although I believe it's already been done, and the morality is quite similar.
Shane Lusher
Summer is over, but I have been reading The Goldfinch, by Donna Tartt, which I somehow missed when it came out. It is a truly beautiful piece of writing.
My mainstays are, as always, John Sandford (Lucas Davenport but lately I've been getting into Virgil Flowers as well), R.J. Ellory, Ian Rankin, Tana French, and many more. Alex Michaelides has been a new discovery this year.
My mainstays are, as always, John Sandford (Lucas Davenport but lately I've been getting into Virgil Flowers as well), R.J. Ellory, Ian Rankin, Tana French, and many more. Alex Michaelides has been a new discovery this year.
Shane Lusher
What my great-grandfather was doing before he came to the U.S. from Switzerland.
Shane Lusher
I don't really get it as much. Once I learned that it was ok to sit down and just write crap for a half hour, it went away.
This was a process that took me twenty years to learn.
This was a process that took me twenty years to learn.
Shane Lusher
I can decide what happens, as long as my characters allow. You can do anything, go anywhere, and meet anybody you want. It's all you. It belongs only to you, and the readers you choose to share it with.
Shane Lusher
Read. Then read some more. Read more. Repeat.
You can't be a writer unless you are a reader first.
Then, write. Then write some more. Write more. Repeat. Even if it's crap, even if you don't ever show it to anybody. It's all about practice. Nobody ever became a Cello player in an orchestra or a professional athlete without hundreds of hours of practice. Genius is born, but writing is a craft that is learned.
You can't be a writer unless you are a reader first.
Then, write. Then write some more. Write more. Repeat. Even if it's crap, even if you don't ever show it to anybody. It's all about practice. Nobody ever became a Cello player in an orchestra or a professional athlete without hundreds of hours of practice. Genius is born, but writing is a craft that is learned.
Shane Lusher
Blood Tithes, the third Dana Hartman Blood book, to be published in April 2021.
Shane Lusher
It's a nervous energy. I spent all of my life wanting to write, but doing precious little of it, filled with worry and general angst. Then I discovered that I could channel all of that nervous thought energy, use it for something constructive.
Now I just wait for that (it happens daily, and it chases me around if I try to ignore it), and then I sit, and I write.
Now I just wait for that (it happens daily, and it chases me around if I try to ignore it), and then I sit, and I write.
Shane Lusher
Recently having dealt with a few issues in my private life, where I did a lot of taking responsibility and moving forward, I asked myself the question: what happens when that doesn't happen? When a person refuses to take responsibility for determining the path of their own life, and instead decides that someone else, someone in particular, has screwed everything up? How far would that person go to rectify the situation?
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