Science fiction, fantasy, mystery and what-not
Sometimes I write part of the novel, and it pours out, and I get up and walk away, exhilarated and terrified, asking myself, oh my God, what have I written?
I didn’t see it coming. I didn’t expect it, and it shocked me.
And then I start writing the next scene in my head and hurry back to my computer, eager to keep going.
The best thing he could do is write with the conviction that he was telling the best possible story in the best possible way. Thoughts such as is it too long, too complicated or convoluted or boring to others had to be shoved aside. He needed to write it like it was ordained to be wondrous.
Otherwise, he would just stop. And then, what would he do?
Yes, he had to write with that conviction.
Michael Seidel, writer 