Today’s sharing with all of you explores how history influences my writing and how it provides inspiration and relatable themes for what I share with my readers. I integrate actual events into fictional narratives, and much like history often repeats itself and shapes our understanding of the present, it also shapes me as a writer. History also shapes you, so I encourage my lovely readers to reflect on your own stories and reshape the future of your narratives.
Tag Archives: novels
Prophesy of the Mind
What comes next as a writer produces sweat on the forehead. People ask the question and want to know. What to say can be a complex answer, as the road ahead is never quite straight. For me, it is something that has so many forks down the way that I have to pause. What is next for me? The answer, or the potential path, could change based on so many factors. The future will tell.
Genres – What Am I Fighting For?
Why are we beholden to one genre or siloed inside a particular box?
Why can’t we simply have a book that speaks to whomever and without residing within the confines of some arbitrary sphere?
When Real-Life Feeds Fiction
Every writer finds inspiration in some some sort of real event or memory. It is the nature of the beast.
That is not to say that we use our lives in totality and turn every single aspect into a plot point or scene in one of our books.
No, not at all.
But, we need reference points, or at least, most of do. We do not all write about our lives and entangle it in our works. Though, I would be hard-pressed to say that I do not include tidbits of my world in my novels.
Editing: The Bane of Writing
Editing sucks. There, I said it. It really does. No writer says, “I can’t wait to rip my book apart and edit the hell out of it!” If they do, check their head into an insane asylum.
A Long Time in the Making
The reason for my absence has been for a positive outcome. The publishing of my psychological suspense thriller novel, Pandemic-19, with the publishing company Good Twin Publishing, has come to fruition. The editing process to get to the point of publishing took considerable time and effort, my focus solely being there and unfortunately leaving my posts to wither in the wind.
Jason McDonald 