Ask the Author: L.R. Nicolello
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L.R. Nicolello
While walking through Seattle with one of my best friends, the idea of DEAD DON’T LIE dropped into my mind as a vibrant and vivid scene from a movie. It continued snowballing from there into a full-blown movie in my head. Most of my novels are based in an city/area that I love or have visited: Seattle, Omaha, Alaska, NYC, San Diego…If I can’t close my eyes and see it, I can’t write it.
L.R. Nicolello
First and foremost: Don’t give up. Find your voice, find your story, and then sit down and write. It sounds so simple but the more you write, the better you become. Read. Read. Read. I think Stephen King said it best: “If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all else: read a lot and write a lot. There’s no way around these two things that I’m aware of, no shortcut.” The life of an author is neither glamorous or easy, but if you can’t shake the story rolling around in your head then don’t you owe it to yourself—and those characters—to write it, give them breath, let them come alive?
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