Whether it is a novel or a business book, anyone who has put a lot of time in which the words “end” take to type the words: What now?
Businessman The first time novelist sat down with Colin Thomson to get the task that only needs to be done when you think the hard work is gone. Thomson wrote and directed three feature films. Loser crown, these are we and a light year – Before writing your first, WealthA very funny, dark and twisted story about a boy struggling to find success and happiness as a Hollywood screenwriter. At every turn, the main character is in search of self -hating and the type of bad decision -making that no one is in the quest to do great experiences, and finally … Well, we will not spoil Wealth. Just know that things end up in a way that is as surprising to readers as they are for the main character.
We asked Thomson to share his journey as a writer, and he learned about getting the idea from your head and on the page, and then, the important thing is in front of your target audience.
What does it want to write this novel to you?
After living in Los Angeles and writing the script (mainly) for a decade, I was in dire need of stepping out of the screenwright and the final draft software. The story (which became Wealth) I wanted to write that he could not easily fit the 90-110 page script. The knock on many of my scripts was that “action” (lines and tongue between dialogue) were very “flowers”. So for each of my scripts as a middle finger that was never sold, or maybe everyone who never bought them, I decided to write a novel, which I always wanted to do but was very scared and scared to try after reading Franzen Success Back in 2010. It took only thirteen years to overcome it. Joe, turning back, was the perfect time, because the movies – the spectrums were particularly dying. So why not the stomach flop is impossible, the dying medium-and more special, more special, one more impossible! Put more seriously: I’m stupid.
Can you discuss your writing process?
A friend of mine has a very good place in Adirundex. For many years, it was a lidite forward. No Wi -Fi. Just a landline. I will go there for a week or so at a time and write my butt off. And back to Brooklyn, I would sit and stay in a better place to write an hour wherever I could find. The morning happens when I probably performs my best. But I try to be open to win on my computer screen all the time. I do not sketch, as Charlie Kaufman once said that the sketch is for the suckers and is inclined towards hamstring where a foolish brain can take them. Most of my scripts (and with this novel), when I first write to write, I know where and where it ends. With Rich, I knew the last lines, frames, feeling. So, when I don’t sketch, I always know where I am going. There may be a frog rainfall in this way, but I always make sure that there is a change of proper shoes and socks.
Do you find feedback as you write?
Not really My wife has been read my first, and she knows what to say (or not to say). Coming from Los Angeles, I learned that no one knows anything and everyone has the opinion. I did not trust my intestines many times in this city. This literary world is clearly different, and I have met some other authors in this process to read the drafts in the future. But I think I am a boy who first likes him to nest him in the end zone and see if anyone wants to see the game tape with me before I (God’s wish) an Ek (God’s desire). 100 % are not sure that football imitation works there, but I’m going to stay with it.
Relevant
If you tell the truth, I am great to know that when I suck. When something gets hollow or just doesn’t work. After editing three feature films, I have learned ruthless, room destination and all. I am liberal with my skull.
What felt in typing “End”?
When I type the end, I was alone in Adirundex. So I was standing and panic, finding someone in the highest five and maybe “Hoop!” Tried. Then I am sure I tried to cry, laughed, and smoked a alcohol. As I said: I knew where it was, how it ended, so getting there was like eliminating ironman, but with bed wounds and atrophy.
What would you advise for the first time novels about the publication of the traditional publication vs. self publishing?
Get an agent. Publish traditionally. It’s more impressive. It is being said, I didn’t even do. I published “Hybrid”, which basically meant that I paid a small publishing house to give me their logo/stamp. Who was worthy of money (really)). They gave me the whole process, but I had to design the cover (or thought my friend resurrected), font, well -known, etc. I take a slim profit from every sale home, I’m not looking at a modest advance that I will probably never be behind. If the book is over, in the distant remote, perhaps Emma Roberts or Natalie Portman put it on her list, the money is mine, not the publisher.
Marketing comes primarily to the author these days. Which strategies have you used to get it out of there?
I sent someone an email I had ever emailed. Perhaps Spam had gone. I am very bad on social media. I swore that I never put my daughter on Instagram (@Lozron)But that sight, the matrix draws, and I think that wherever she goes, she can earn (and take it) wherever she goes. This is the part that is useless. After posting an Instagram story, I get wrapped up. I use my own Subsism Newsletter to move the book forward; I have published some chapters there, as well as the sound track of the book (I have been rolled out of sports and music, it is as if I will give the world a sense and there is something I can’t help).
We had some readings in Berlinton, Vermont, which were amazing. I had two musician friends on the stage and in the midst of reading the quote, we played the book from the book. Mike Gordon, Fish, was there. I probably never felt cool. But we did not have enough budget to go to the tour, so after these two nights, the Dopamine accident was bullying. The biggest piece of my advice is to get out and talk to people, “network” or whatever is said. In fact, this is just advice/I am trying to give myself at the moment, because I haven’t talked to an adult outside my suburbs in a long, long time.
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Also, as much as it hurts, it feels like a small piece of you die every time when you “post” something or hawk your luggage on social media: control it. Be better than that. This is 2025. (Once again, much of it is a pep talk for me.)
You recorded the audiobock yourself. Do these some authors ignore your opinion?
I think audiobock is a place where friends use most of their literature, and I have no number to back it. I just started listening to audioboxes, and I mainly listen to non -fiction or really popular books that I won’t feel cool in public. (See: Lincoln Highway.) Fortunately, I have been doing a lot of voice over over the past few years, so I have a gear (minus a hijab booth). “I’ll knock it right now,” I thought. Which was not enough. It was a very (unprecedented) job, and editing, fine, as editing a ten -hour movie, but I had to listen to myself all the time. Talking about audiobox, though, that is, the narrator makes or breaks it. The narrator can ruin an excellent book.
You sing a little in yourself. And your voice is very good!
First: Thanks. It was a funny decision, because I attacked half the song in my first tech (tongues) and listening back I realized that I needed to go all sides, really need to sing. I needed to show the world my best Bobby. So, thank you for saying this.
Books are a long, difficult process. Something that has helped you to advance the days when you are not feeling 100 % psychological about writing/promoting?
I like to say that I have done something that most people talk about just doing. That is why I made the first film. I am very unsafe and cocktail at the same time. Many people say they want to write a book. Very few people do. That’s why I did it. He helped me in the dark days.
In those days when I am not self -writing, I just try to get at least one page down, forward speed and all. When I am not self -promoted, I stare at my phone with anger and wonder why I didn’t succeed.
For the first time, my advice to the authors is that if the change is revealed, there is no go down. It is a whole bullying attempt, and agents have only one licking finger in the stupid air, trying to estimate the “market” unexpected season. If you think your job is good, if you think your book is very good, maybe it’s not, but nobody knows anything, so maybe it’s? Does it help?
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