Just Chattin’ with K. A. Williams, Author of The Firebird Chronicles

Visit Kristen Williams’ blog and buy her books! https://k-a-williams.com/

Firebird and Olympus (Book 2 of The Firebird Chronicles) are available for purchase.

In this video, Kristen shares her writing process and the creation of The Firebird Chronicles as well as tips and advice for writers who long to get their words out there.

Join Kristen in her science fiction world with a full cast of strong women who lead the way on Mars in the year 3000. It’s a feisty, wild west, anarchy kind of place. Kristen loves following her characters down the darkened corridors of imaginative prewriting and really getting to know them.

• Write
  Setting up a pattern of writing regularly trains your brain to be ready when the time to write comes along. Often people who want to be writers believe wrongly that writing comes as a muse and must only happen with the presence of the muse. Kristen says that it’s actually a habit of regularly writing that means when you come home from working your day job, you’ll naturally be thinking about writing your stories and mentally ready to work on them. Without the regularity of a writing practice, you may be inclined to plop down with pizza and a beer and make no headway on your special writing projects.
  
• Read Writing Blogs
  Kristen says that learning about other writers means that inspiration can come from others’ perspectives on the writing life and process. She has loved Patrick Rothfuss’ blog, author of The Name of the Wind. Particularly beneficial, Kristen said, are his earliest blog articles. Reading how another writer (even the prolific, audacious, and resilient published authors) processes balancing writing with other aspects of life, writing to deadlines, carrying on conversations that feel real with their characters, dealing with imposter syndrome even after you’ve published, etc. can be exceedingly beneficial in the realization that the moments of madness that occur as a writer are normal, generally acceptable, and reassuring that you aren’t alone after all.
  
• Read
  Reading fills our creative cups. Reading voraciously and widely perpetuations imagination and creative thought. It ensures that you think about your own writing whilst studying others’. Reading with pleasure helps remind you of part of the purpose you have as a writer: to connect with others through the words you put into the world.

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