Rachna
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Rick Riordan:
I first read your books when I was 10 and now I’m 26 - time flies! Do you have any advice around being in situations where you really want to do something but keep getting distracted/find some reason to procrastinate, and how to cut through the noise and focus?
Rick Riordan
The best I can tell you is that you are not alone. This is the main struggle of every writer. As far as I can tell, there are no short cuts or secret tricks. You just have to power through the best you can. Everybody is always too distracted to write, myself included. One thing that might help is to try finding the time of day when you are most productive, and the environment in which you can best write. That isn't always possible to do, and everyone is different, but it does help, for instance, if you can identify the times and places that seem to work best for you. For me, it tends to be early morning in my living room, maybe with some quiet instrumental music playing.
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Ariana
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Rick Riordan:
Is the concept of the Mist at all inspired by Terry Pratchett's idea in Disc world (specifically Death's series because I haven't read the rest) where people don't see Death/other supernatural things unless they're magicians? Or is it a coincidence that the ideas are similar?
Evelyn
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Rick Riordan:
Hello Mr. Riordan! I am a big fan of your books, especially the Percy Jackson series, and I wanted to ask you some questions, if you have the time to answer them. I'm sure that you're very busy. 1) How do you deal with negative feedback on your books? 2) If Percy and his friends were Star Wars characters, who would they be? Thank you! -Greek Mythology nerd
Vitor Luiz
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Rick Riordan:
Kind of a specially nerdy question, but in Greek and Roman mythology the Morning Star and the Evening Star (Eosphorus and Hesperus) are sibling deities based on the brighter "Star" in the sky during dawn and dusk, later recognized as the planet Venus. As such, could Afrodite/Venus be a fatherly figure of demigods through those aspects, instead of always a motherly figure? Or would they be different gods alltogether?
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