Michael Grant
I don't do inspiration, I do work.
I came at writing from a very different direction than most writers. Most writers go school-college-advanced degree-writing. I went: HS dropout-stock clerk-law librarian-waiter-burglar-restaurant manager-apartment manager-cleaner-writer.
I have insisted from the start on treating writing not as some high-flown 'calling' but as a job. I do my job. Every day. Good mood, bad mood, easy times, hard times, poor, rich, healthy, sick, I do my job. On approximately 150 occasions I've sat down at a keyboard intending to write and publish a book and 150 times I did exactly that. My approach is to not start taking myself too seriously, not to get all mystical about it, and treat it as a job. I show up, I write, I deliver on-time, on-spec, and pretty near camera-ready.
I came at writing from a very different direction than most writers. Most writers go school-college-advanced degree-writing. I went: HS dropout-stock clerk-law librarian-waiter-burglar-restaurant manager-apartment manager-cleaner-writer.
I have insisted from the start on treating writing not as some high-flown 'calling' but as a job. I do my job. Every day. Good mood, bad mood, easy times, hard times, poor, rich, healthy, sick, I do my job. On approximately 150 occasions I've sat down at a keyboard intending to write and publish a book and 150 times I did exactly that. My approach is to not start taking myself too seriously, not to get all mystical about it, and treat it as a job. I show up, I write, I deliver on-time, on-spec, and pretty near camera-ready.
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One thing I really love about your series is how there are no cardboard-cut-out characters. Everyone matters, you care whenever someone dies and they all seem like people that you might have known a couple years ago... As a writer myself, how do you make the reader care and empathize with all of your characters, not just the most important ones?
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Dec 05, 2018 06:06AM · flag