So you’ve got your idea. Now, you’ve got to nurture your idea. You’ve got to feed it, and help it grow. You can only do that so much with your own limited experiences.
So how does one go about this?
You’ve got to fill your mind with as much genre-friendly information as you can.
Technically it’s called research. But to me, that’s a dirty, word . So instead of research (or the R-word), were’ going to call it living.
Throughout the entire course of writing your book, you’ve got to live your topic.
The year and a half it took me to write The Man in the Box, I constantly read books that were similar to its setting/genre. I read Jurassic Park, Hunger Games, John Carter of Mars, among many others.
And if you read Box, you can see inspirations of those novels.
I’m currently writing a young readers…
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