George Will
George Will
George Frederick Willis an American newspaper columnist and political commentator. He is a Pulitzer Prize–winner known for his conservative commentary on politics. In 1986, The Wall Street Journal called him "perhaps the most powerful journalist in America," in a league with Walter Lippmann...
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth4 May 1941
market seemed trying
Trying to break into the horror market seemed natural.
time
For each book, the time is also broken up.
authors disparate influenced
Even the contemporary horror authors who have seriously influenced me are a disparate bunch.
bit
The way I outline has changed quite a bit from when I first started writing.
sale
So, in effect, my first sale was actually two books.
five hours months spent
I spent two months on the first draft, working 8 hours a day, five days a week.
finished stories
Many of my short stories (all unpublished) were horror, and the novel I'd just finished was horror, too.
since
I've been reading horror since I was five years old.
books couple weeks
A couple of weeks after that, Zebra Books phoned with an offer, and I accepted.
cemetery dependent despite fact fiction horror market paying stories
On the other hand, now that I'm not dependent on fiction for my income, I've been writing more short stories despite the fact that there's no real paying market for short horror other than Cemetery Dance.
fan hard horror pulling time
I'm a fan of short horror fiction... in fact, the most memorable horror I've read is of the short variety... but I have a hard time pulling it off myself.
novels vague
For the novels I wrote before selling anything, I didn't outline much. I had a vague idea of the story.
analyzing came decided plotting sound structure
When I decided to take writing seriously, I did a lot of reading and analyzing of the books I liked, and came up with what I thought were pretty sound plotting and structure basics.
computer computers sat stop until
I got up with my wife, I sat down at the computer when she went to work, and I didn't stop until she got home.