Ask the Author: Thomas Sullivan
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Thomas Sullivan
Stephen King’s one-time agent, Kirby McCauley, once suggested to me that I look into a certain history. I was turned off by the idea, but glanced at it anyway and spent the next four years researching how a nation went insane for 12 years. The upshot was a comprehensive book that could unify the many aspects of my own career – thriller, history, romance, literary, adventure, suspense, religious legend, occult…and, above all, a PEOPLE story!
Thomas Sullivan
Inspiration is most often a byproduct of getting outside myself. It’s a fascinating world. Opening my eyes – and my mind’s eye – to everything around me always produces insights/inspirations. I take a romantic/realism POV of the world, and there are always ignition sparks for that when my senses go looking…
Thomas Sullivan
My newsletter (Sullygram) which goes around the globe to thousands of readers. CASE WHITE – a novel I’ve been nurturing for decades – has just debuted [ http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00O79GQTE ], and though the newsletter is mostly motivational/inspirational and includes photos each month, I want to respond to a lot of the fuss about the release. If you’d like to receive a Sullygram free each month, drop me a note here: mn333mn@earthlink.net .
Thomas Sullivan
I would add only one thing to the well-founded advice most authors would give, i.e. write and read every day. My add-on is “to live.” If you haven’t built bridges between everyday life experiences and your expression of same, then this is what you must do if you want to reach your potential as a writer.
Thomas Sullivan
People. Plain and simple…people connections are the best things about being a writer. You meet all types from saints to sinners, and each one has the potential to enlighten and enrich your life – and more importantly, for you to enrich theirs.
Thomas Sullivan
For me, writers block and intestinal blocks are made of the same thing, and the solution is the same: clear the path. In the former case you do that by switching gears, getting out of the saturation element that makes you feel blocked. You can do that by just leaving the four walls that hem you in, reading a different vibe entirely, writing a different vibe entirely, or simply immersing yourself in a distraction or some interest outside yourself.
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