Authorization

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The art of telling stories has been around for countless years in many different forms, be it by drawing pictures depicting scenes on a wall, to speaking of great heroes from times past, to just writing down snippets of a young wizard’s life on napkins in a coffee shop (“Biography”). Even today, writing stories and creating fictional worlds is a tremendous part of life for many people. For those people, they have to find some way to get people to read their works and what they have to go through is quite interesting, but is more complicated than one would think. Writing a fiction books is more complicated in the fact that have to know how to properly write a story, they have to try and make a name for themselves, and they have to figure out how to actually make some money.
Writing a book is no easy task; there are many steps involved in doing this the first one being getting inspiration for what to write about. Inspiration can come in many different ways, and according to Lori Martin, a small time published author, in an interview conducted by Kenny Mobley, “Inspiration comes in many ways—mostly by living.” Lori gave the example that for a time, her works were centered around water after she heard about the floods of Coffeeville, Kansas. Another good example she used for getting inspiration from life is writing about obsessions. Writing about obsessions gives the author the opportunity to write about something they know or have the desire to learn about it more. This can expand the author’s choices on plots and characters.
Creating characters and plots are the most important parts to creating a good, strong story; without them, there would either be no story or a very boring and confusing story. It is nearly essential to know ever...

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