Ask the Author: C. Gockel
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C. Gockel
I'm late to seeing this, obviously. Hopefully, by now you've discovered the source of James' mystery. He was the most difficult to write character in any of my fiction.
C. Gockel
Where do socks that go missing in the wash wind up.
C. Gockel
Thank you for writing me! I'm so sorry it took me this long to see the question. I have one other book in the After the Fire series. It's here:
https://www.amazon.com/Magic-After-Mi...
I hope to write another one, perhaps next year.
https://www.amazon.com/Magic-After-Mi...
I hope to write another one, perhaps next year.
C. Gockel
I don't usually come to events. I'm shy.
Someday I may get up the courage.
Someday I may get up the courage.
C. Gockel
I don't hang out on Goodreads often, and I'm sorry I'm just getting this.
Thank you so much for your comment! I love science, and I don't think I'll be able to keep it out of any book I write. Even if it is Paranormal Romance (my next project.)
Thank you so much for your comment! I love science, and I don't think I'll be able to keep it out of any book I write. Even if it is Paranormal Romance (my next project.)
C. Gockel
I'm so sorry it has taken me so long to get back to you. I didn't envision 3.5 when I first wrote the series. I got inspired, and it just "happened" and then I added it into the series. But it is a problem that it is 3.5 as it doesn't show up on the Amazon series page. I'm not sure how I should deal with it to be honest.
C. Gockel
I'm sorry you felt it was off-putting. I actually love writing in third person present tense, I love reading it too, it feels like I'm in the moment with the characters. Especially once In the Balance and Fates began I felt like it worked with the story too, so many memories overlapping with the present.
Thank you for reading the series even though you didn't like the tense it was written in. I am writing the Archangel Project in the third-person past-tense ... I miss present tense and it seems to make so much more sense for Sci-Fi that takes place in the future! But I'm trying to be more "marketable."
Thank you for reading the series even though you didn't like the tense it was written in. I am writing the Archangel Project in the third-person past-tense ... I miss present tense and it seems to make so much more sense for Sci-Fi that takes place in the future! But I'm trying to be more "marketable."
C. Gockel
Sorry this answer is so late, I just saw your question!
My latest series is being written because a famous person said something that annoyed me greatly.
My latest series is being written because a famous person said something that annoyed me greatly.
C. Gockel
Sorry! I'm just finding the "Ask the Author a Question" section. I never was notified and am now answering questions that are over a year old!
I write from a place of hate. I hated how Loki was treated by Marvel and a lot of modern stories. Chaos isn't the villain! We need Chaos in moderation ... Order isn't necessarily nice. Think of the Nazis, or Stalin. (***shiver***)
I write from a place of hate. I hated how Loki was treated by Marvel and a lot of modern stories. Chaos isn't the villain! We need Chaos in moderation ... Order isn't necessarily nice. Think of the Nazis, or Stalin. (***shiver***)
C. Gockel
I rarely came to Goodreads and just found 6 questions I've never seen before ... all over a year old. (Hides head in shame.)
I am currently working on a story called, "Noa's Ark" a follow up to my book "Archangel Down." Should be out spring of 2016.
I am currently working on a story called, "Noa's Ark" a follow up to my book "Archangel Down." Should be out spring of 2016.
C. Gockel
Write ... it doesn't have to be a story, it can be an email, it can be marketing copy.
And live your life. I think you have to go out and do things and meet people to make your stories more interesting.
And live your life. I think you have to go out and do things and meet people to make your stories more interesting.
C. Gockel
I really like my fans. They are so nerdy and wonderful and trade quantum physics jokes with me on Facebook.
C. Gockel
I'm so sorry ... I just found this question (I don't visit here often.)
To deal with writer's block I just sit down and write even if I know it's going to be boring and I'll have to rewrite it. Sometimes this means I rewrite a scene 3 or 4 times. But it also means I wind up getting magic sniffing cats in scenes that would have been boring and tedious. (By the third rewrite I've usually found a way to make myself not bored.)
To deal with writer's block I just sit down and write even if I know it's going to be boring and I'll have to rewrite it. Sometimes this means I rewrite a scene 3 or 4 times. But it also means I wind up getting magic sniffing cats in scenes that would have been boring and tedious. (By the third rewrite I've usually found a way to make myself not bored.)
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