What is your writing process?
There is a simple "recipe": Find at least two genuine characters, interrogate them, dig into their minds and discover everything about their lives. Then, let them write the story themselves. The more honest the characters, the better the story.
However, discovering even one fictional yet genuine character who can write a real story is complicated. Like the Homeric hero Odysseus, one needs to travel around the cities of the people and carefully study their minds. Feel the vice and the virtue. See the insanity and the reason. Feel the power of nature and the weakness of humans.
What are you working on next?
Greek Mythology. I am writing down the ancient Greek Myths in chronological order. From Chaos, Gaia and Eros, to Ouranos, Cronos and Zeus. I have divided the myths to three major subjects, I.e.: 1.The genesis of Cosmos, 2.The humans of the gods, and 3.the gods of the humans. Up to now I have written about 1,100 pages ...
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