Ask the Author: Martha M. Moravec
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Martha M. Moravec
Having insatiable curiosity and a rich inner life. Being able to spend hours, days, sometimes days on end, alone. Having so many moods, secrets, hauntings and joyful noises brimming up inside of you that they must, shall and can spill over onto the page.
Martha M. Moravec
That depends on what kind of writer you are aspiring to be. If your chief objective is to develop a solid fan base and steady income, then by all means do as you're told by industry pundits: pick a genre, study it and stick with it. However, if your interest tends more toward fathoming and expressing what it is to be human and fully alive, by all means familiarize yourself with the book biz, but hold sacred the words of my favorite writer: "To thine own self be true." Whatever your genre, hopes or expectations, remember that you are the writer, you are the creator, you are the one with the vision. The story came out of your soul and yours only.
Martha M. Moravec
While promoting my new memoir, which includes maintaining four different blogs, I will be revising a sci-fi eco fable, which at 80,000 words should not take long, and then start querying and submitting. I will then turn my attention to a much longer "finished" work, an epic fantasy, revise it and also prepare it for submission. At the same time I will be researching and plotting out my next book, a historical novel. I could go on here, because there are at least six more books on the drawing board. I will never be done.
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