The Eerie Adventures of the Lycanthrope Robinson Crusoe by Peter Clines

I’ve always been jealous of people who can come up with great titles (David Conyers is an author who almost always has clever, compelling titles) but I’ve never been good at it. Peter: It went through many, many titles.

Please tell us something about The Fold that we won't find in the book description. Will people like this? Has this idea been done before? Am I doing anything new with this? Could this be better?Īnd then all that stuff gets beaten down or addressed and I get back to writing. I thought it’d get easier once I was doing this professionally, but the truth is I worry about things even more now. The most challenging thing is probably just self doubt-which is probably the biggest challenge for every writer at every stage of their career. I have a bad habit of sticking to the outline no matter what, even when I can (and should) be doing something else with the story and characters. If I do anything more detailed than that, it tends to cause problems. I try to have a few rough beats and plot points when I head into something, a pretty good idea of where I want to end up, some basic character ideas, but that’s about it. Peter: A little of both, probably leaning more towards a pantser. TQ: Are you a plotter or a pantser? What is the most challenging thing for you about writing? It’s a lot easier to burn out on something when it’s the only thing you’re doing, and I had to figure out where my maximum returns were, if that makes sense. Now that it’s just fiction, I’ve had to learn how to better schedule my time. Up until a few years ago it was always fiction and writing for a magazine or website, or fiction and film work before that.

The biggest change has really been doing it as a full-time job. I’d been writing for a long, long time before I started having some noteworthy success with fiction, so I’d already struggled through trying different methods and finding what worked best for me. Peter: My process probably hasn’t changed that much since then. How has your writing process changed (or not) since 2010 to now? Your first two novels ( Ex-Heroes and The Eerie Adventures of the Lycanthrope Robinson Crusoe) were published in 2010.

The Eerie Adventures of the Lycanthrope Robinson Crusoe by Peter Clines