The Author’s Mind – A Great Place To Visit, But You Don’t Want To Live There & Giveaway!
What makes an author tick? Fletcher Best, author of the humor/satire, The Eight Fingered Fiend of Lake Porker, is here to tell you maybe it is and maybe it isn't a good thing to be inside the mind of Stephen King, lol.
The Author’s Mind – A Great Place To Visit, But You Don’t Want To Live There!
Aspiring writers who dream of being like their favorite author
sometimes try to get inside the mind of that author to figure out what makes
his or her writing so compelling. For
many, the hope is that by learning to think like the author they love, perhaps
one day they can replicate his or her success.
They read and re-read the author’s books, study his or her blog and
social media posts, analyze interviews he or she
has given, and work hard to
get to know that person and how that writer’s mind works – only to be horrified
when they reach the inescapable conclusion that their favorite author is a complete
whacko!
There’s a big difference between enjoying the temporary
entertainment of reading a good book and the eternal hell of living full-time in
the mind that created it. It can be fun
to be scared, to laugh hysterically, even to be moved to tears, but do you
actually want to have your mind permanently warped? Do you really want your headspace inhabited
by the demons that reside in the noggin of someone like Stephen King, George
R.R. Martin, or the people who write those Chicken
Soup for the Soul books? I don’t
think so! Are you willing to risk being
consumed by the sexual depravity of people who could come up with books like Fifty Shades of Grey, The 120 Days of Sodom, or The Eight Fingered Fiend of Lake Porker?
These are works by some very sick minds and there are some things that there’s
just no coming back from!
My advice to aspiring authors is to take a step back from
learning everything they can about what makes their favorite authors “tick” - because
that “tick” is probably the sound of a psychological time-bomb getting ready to
go off. While an incredible read often
does come from a writer who is a lady or gent in the street but a freak in the
head, it’s best to keep your relationship with that writer strictly pleasurable
and avoid getting too emotionally intimate with his or her mental process. Instead, try to get in touch with your own
thoughts and emotions and allow them to flow into your writing.
In short, learn from your favorite authors’ techniques, but
stay out of their heads. As an aspiring
writer, take pride and be confident that you stand apart as a unique author in
your own right and that you have plenty of your own brand of sick, deviant insanity
to entertain those who will become your loyal fans.
About the Author
Fletcher Best is an American author of humorous fiction and science fiction. He is
the author of the Stranded In Time series of science fiction novels,
including Pirates of the Storm, The Corpornation, and the
upcoming third installment, Timeless. His humorous works include Sniffing
Out Stink Ape, The Great Chupacabra Kerfuffle, and The
Eight Fingered Fiend of Lake Porker.
In
addition to his novels, Fletcher Best also writes short stories that are
published exclusively for the enjoyment of visitors to his website,
FletcherBest.com. These include the popular, Manatee Vengeance - Blood
at the Boat Launch, Alien Invasion of the Zombie Apocalypse, Operation
Black Friday, and A Fabulous Business Opportunity.
Born
in Miami, Florida,
Fletcher has lived in Texas since
1988. He (or more correctly, his real-life alter-ego George Best)
attended Parker College of Chiropractic in Dallas
before beginning a chiropractic practice in San Antonio
in 1992. He has resided in San Antonio
ever since and now lives in sin with his girlfriend and their 4 cats (the sin
being strictly with the girlfriend, not the cats).
Readers
are invited to connect with Fletcher through his website at http://www.FletcherBest.com.
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