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Arthur Slade Quotes
Arthur Slade Quotes
Arthur Slade
Canadian
Author
Born:
Jul 9
,
1967
Believe
Characters
Feeling
People
Writing
You
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As a child, I spent a lot of time wandering around the prairies and in the hills, and there was a sense that it was such a wide-open space, and there was kind of a feeling of potential. I could imagine anything happening there.
Arthur Slade
Time
Space
Feeling
Sense
Spent
Kind
Potential
Could
Hills
Around
Prairie
Lot
Child
Wandering
Anything
Happening
Imagine
As enjoyable as it is when you're just writing and getting feedback from family members, it's 10 times more enjoyable, or 100 times more enjoyable, when you actually start getting paid for it, and people start reading your books, and once in a while you get a good review.
Arthur Slade
Good
Family
You
People
Writing
Feedback
Reading
Books
Once
Members
More
Review
Times
Get
Family Members
Getting
Just
While
Paid
Your
Actually
Enjoyable
Start
When writing fantastical literature, your biggest problem is getting your audience to believe the fantastical elements of your story.
Arthur Slade
Writing
Problem
Believe
Audience
Getting
Biggest
Story
Literature
Biggest Problem
Your
Elements
It seems so easy to write about some normal event and twist it a little bit to make it into a supernatural event.
Arthur Slade
Bit
Easy
Some
About
Seems
Supernatural
Write
Make
Normal
Little
Little Bit
Event
Twist
The writer's goal is to try to make it frightening without describing it too much, and yet not making it so grey that you don't know what's going on... Your imagination can imagine all sorts of really horrible things, and if you're able to prolong that feeling, then you've succeeded.
Arthur Slade
You
Try
Too Much
Feeling
Imagination
Too
Prolong
Able
Horrible
Horrible Things
Writer
Know
Make
Sort
Without
Making
Goal
Frightening
Going
Grey
Succeeded
Then
Much
Really
Your
Describing
Things
Imagine
People tell me how great it must have been to ride horses and stuff. Well, do it for two days straight on dusty days when the cows and horses were really tired.
Arthur Slade
Great
Me
Tired
People
Ride
Tell
Must
Horses
Stuff
Days
Well
How
Were
Been
Cows
Dusty
Straight
Really
Ride Horses
Two
The valley we lived in could easily be the setting for a fantasy novel or a prairie western novel. It could be anything.
Arthur Slade
Setting
Valley
Easily
Could
Prairie
Western
Anything
Fantasy
Novel
Lived
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