Ask the Author: John Mark Green
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John Mark Green
My next book is called Tales of an Inconvenient Heart and will explore love and heartbreak through poems and short stories. The stories fall in the fairy tale and magic realism genres. It will include amazing artwork (much of which is already completed) by Beth Little who also did the artwork for Taste the Wild Wonder.
John Mark Green
My best writing comes out of chasing ideas. An image, a phrase, or perhaps even a word. There is something there, tenuous and undefined, but I can feel it, and I let it touch something inside of me, and follow where it leads. Sometimes ideas come as I'm drifting off to sleep, or just waking up. Perhaps being in that hazy in-between state allows ideas to emerge from my subconscious. Creativity is an odd and wonderful thing, and I sometimes find myself pleasantly surprised at what I've written, and I wonder "Where did that come from?" Certain instrumental music stirs me emotionally and I like to have it on when I'm writing. Movies that make me feel deeply about the human condition can inspire, and reading well-written books and poetry either inspires me to reach for more in my own writing or makes me feel quitting because I know I'll never reach the level of mastery of what I've just read.
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