Persistence in the Face of Great Adversity

by David James

As I sit here in my car doing my best to figure out exactly what I’m going to write about, I think about a friend of mine that’s well published that uses a voice recorder in his ear while he goes hiking to do his first drafts. And I think of a marketer who uses a voice recorder to automatically type what he wants written for his marketing campaigns into Google Docs. Thus, using inspiration from both of them, I am doing voice-to-text right now as I think about what it is I am going to write.

One of the things that I admire in writers, is how they can take over a known universe, and make it their own, giving us a great story in it that continues the universe’s Legacy. I think of the Star Wars Expanded Universe of novels. I think of the Star Trek novels. I think of authors that take over after other authors have died such as what Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson have done with Frank Herbert’s Dune, and what Brandon Sanderson did for Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time, or what Todd McCaffrey did after his mom died with the Pern novels.

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