billscott

billscott: What's more important in a story, if you had to choose only one....intrigue or suspense?

billscott: If faced with a choice to write a novel or blog for fun, which would it be? Why?

billscott: What inspires your word art?

billscott: Germany is considering returning to the typewriter.

Good or bad idea?

billscott: If computers were rendered useless, would you still be a writer?

billscott: Do you use feather and ink writing tools?

billscott: Scenario: A topic intrigues you for a story, its characters are full and lush in your mind, the storyline is fairly clear, you pen a partial outline. While all of it is fresh in your mind:

do you check to see if the story is a Big Concept against today's news and hot headlines to see if its worth writing?

or

do you write it anyway, regardless of its overall appeal (or lack-there-of)?

billscott: Scenario: you have two plotlines from which to choose.

One plot resembles a "hot topic", which might challenge your friendships

OR

the other topic is a bit toned down and you know will get "some" mild attention at best.

Which one do you choose?

billscott: Self publishing or conventional publishing? Which one is better in your opinion?

billscott: if writing was your only way to make money...seriously, your only way...would you work for someone or yourself? And in what capacity?

billscott: When do you think your story, poem or novel is good enough for publishing?

billscott: How do you thoroughly plan your story?

Is it in your head or on paper or on computer before you write it?

billscott: Who inspires you to write?

billscott: Offering up prayers, thoughts and respectful meditations for Gungalo...we will miss you!

I miss her

billscott: do you decide a plot based on a subject you like or with current events?

billscott: How do you "figure out" your characters?

Do you use past experiences of your own and mix them in?

Or do you completely make it all up?

billscott: after you have written your work, have you wondered what it might look like as a screenplay? or even written it yourself? or maybe someone wrote it out for you?

billscott: If you could be a fly on the wall of a famous author to see how they operate, write, market, interact with publishers, their fans, etc., whose wall would you be on?

billscott: Have you written more than one genre? Which one? If so, would you ever do so again?

billscott: When your written words hit the page, what leads you...the character(s), plot, theme, or central conflict?

Or is it something else?

billscott: When inspiration strikes, do you write or outline your next writing project?

billscott: What is meditation?

AT first when I thought about it, I thought it meant donning a robe and climbing to the top of a mountain and finding some guru to talk with.

Of course that is a naive way to think about it, so I needed more of an example.

A friend of mind introduced me to the idea and within 5 minutes we were done.

All I remember was considering his ideas and being calm.

And he said...

Exactly, all you have to do is to change one aspect of what we just did.

And that blew my mind...

billscott: If meditation was designed to work with what you do like and was specific to your intentions, would you use it?

billscott: What if meditation helped your writing...would you try it to find out?

billscott: Do you use meditation before tackling writing prompts?

billscott: All photos on any of my works are courtesy of google images in the public domain, unless indicated by FanArt contributions.