On July 1,
2012, my teenage son and I went to a book signing. My son's first time
going to one - and it was for one of his all-time favourite authors. The author was
in Hamilton, NZ for the last stop, and last "show" on his tour for the
final book in the series. The next day, he was flying home.
Dragons, Magic, Dwarves, Elves, Wizards, dark forests - the core elements of every good fantasy novel are in his books.
The
author spoke with the crowd for nearly an hour, telling of his journey
of writing. It was quite an interesting story, and he was a dynamic
speaker. At the end, during Q&A one of the members of the audience
asked "how do you go about writing a book"?
The
answer was insightful. His answer was that it was in exactly the same
way as every other author he had met started to write their stories. The authors all started with Questions. "What if...?", "How about if the character did this...?", "Why can't we just...?" and so on.
That got me to thinking about Projects. Doesn't every project start the same way - with a lot of Questions?
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