Ask the Author: B.Y. Yan
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B.Y. Yan
Two penny answer - I am an unapologetic gamer. Was, actually, since the early 90s. Still am, currently, because videogames are awesome!
B.Y. Yan
I don't get blocked often enough for it to become an issue. When in doubt, the old advice really does work best. Step away. Come back in a few days/weeks/months, and you'll be able to look at the work in a new light. The things which didn't make sense before will start to form something of a pattern, and you'll swiftly realize your internal editor has mellowed enough for you get on with your work.
B.Y. Yan
I've heard it's being able to go to work in your bathrobe, or sitting at your window looking down on traffic jams with a smug look sipping coffee. Those are just perks. Really it's just about hanging out with all your friends who don't really exist except in your head. They're all wonderful, wonderful people.
B.Y. Yan
Just. Keep. Writing.
In this day and age it seems how much you write and how good your work is matters less than how you manage to sell that work to the public - if taking off your clothes and dancing in the rain will get you noticed, so be it! Humiliation of the writer in exchange for eyes is preferable to having the work stand on its own merits.
If you were horrified by what was written above, then you have what it takes to be a writer. That way lies doom. The work is yours, and the work is all that matters in the end. Just. Keep. Writing.
In this day and age it seems how much you write and how good your work is matters less than how you manage to sell that work to the public - if taking off your clothes and dancing in the rain will get you noticed, so be it! Humiliation of the writer in exchange for eyes is preferable to having the work stand on its own merits.
If you were horrified by what was written above, then you have what it takes to be a writer. That way lies doom. The work is yours, and the work is all that matters in the end. Just. Keep. Writing.
B.Y. Yan
Just. Keep. Writing.
In this day and age it seems how much you write and how good your work is matters less than how you manage to sell that work to the public - if taking off your clothes and dancing in the rain will get you noticed, so be it! Humiliation of the writer in exchange for eyes is preferable to having the work stand on its own merits.
If you were horrified by what was written above, then you have what it takes to be a writer. That way lies doom. The work is yours, and the work is all that matters in the end. Just. Keep. Writing.
In this day and age it seems how much you write and how good your work is matters less than how you manage to sell that work to the public - if taking off your clothes and dancing in the rain will get you noticed, so be it! Humiliation of the writer in exchange for eyes is preferable to having the work stand on its own merits.
If you were horrified by what was written above, then you have what it takes to be a writer. That way lies doom. The work is yours, and the work is all that matters in the end. Just. Keep. Writing.
B.Y. Yan
A serial in the vein of the old Sherlock Holmes series as they appeared in the Strand magazine. There is something liberating about constraint - 20,000 words or less to tell a worthy tale - despite the irony of the above sentence, and I'm having a ball hanging out with my Lynchman's Owl.
B.Y. Yan
I don't. I read, lots. At some point you start to make up your own stories in your head, and once your imaginary friends start winning arguments you find it is probably easier just to let them tell their story in full.
B.Y. Yan
From watching terrible Chinese period tv - the actors were wonderful, the plot was a mess. The emperor of that series was in turns portrayed as a seasoned adventurer to whom no danger was insurmountable, and an utter buffoon falling prey to the easiest of traps. I got to thinking... he must have had help, he must have had help he didn't even know was there, and so our opportunistic secret bodyguard Sangor was born.
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