Ask the Author: Allan J. "Alonzo" Wind
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Allan J. "Alonzo" Wind
I need to find some good fiction titles to take my mind all the books this summer and autumn from the collapsing Trump presidency. I finished Rage just tonight, and am 93% done with Michael Cohen's book. We also listened on Audible to Mary Trump's book. And of course have gone through Philip Rucker's A Very Stable Genius and others. It's poisoned my mind.
Allan J. "Alonzo" Wind
I think it really comes down to discipline and setting up the undisturbed time in the first part of the day to write write write - without editing at all at first. Worry about that later. I've had it preached to me to write for 25 minute long Pomodoro blocs of time, without interruption. Get up, walk around, then set a timer and do it again. Results add up, hopefully.
Allan J. "Alonzo" Wind
Two bog inspirations: I met and chatted with Isaac Asimov at a science fiction convention in New York City in the early 1970s. I was amazed by his multiple contradictions and "shtick." Then in my junior and senior year at Stuyvesant High School for English I was selected to be in Frank McCourt's creative writing class. His stories which later were developed in his books were endless and a source of mirth and inspiration.
Allan J. "Alonzo" Wind
It's hard. I find it too easy to procrastinate. Really the only thing to do is to force yourself to write in chunks of time, about a half hour, in the morning. And don't edit while you write. Let it be a free flow at start.
Allan J. "Alonzo" Wind
I am developing an outline for subsequent works regarding my life in Africa with my family and my work there and in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Allan J. "Alonzo" Wind
This book is a project I have long wished to complete. It shares from my experiences as a Peace Corps volunteer in Ecuador, and the circumstances of how I came to take up a vocation for working in Latin America in international development for much of my life. I also talk about my personal spiritual journey.
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