Author Allen M Werner

Ernest Hemingway said “Writing is something that you can never do as well as it can be done. It is a perpetual challenge and it is more difficult than anything else that I have ever done – so I do it.”
I think for many of us writers, those that try to avoid the tired cliches and cookie-cutter formats that help some authors churn out book after book without much originality because it has become an occupation and they have deadlines to meet, writing is a perpetual challenge.
Finding the time to write, the space to write, the energy to write, the story to write, the characters to write, the conversations to write, the scenes to write, the action to write, is difficult.
But something in our soul is motivating us to keep at it, to keep writing and stay inspired. To try and write something unlike anything ever written before.
“I don’t like to write, but I love to have written.”
– Michael Kanin
Writing is lonely work.
A writer literally has to block out the real world and the people in it, including their families.
A writer has to disappear for hours in a cave of solitude without distractions.
A writer has to find the time to be alone with their creations, with the landscapes they have conceived and the people that populate it. They have to become intimate with them, knowing their habits and interests, their loves and hates, what they have done and what they think and believe.
We motivate them and we depress them.
We encourage them and we tear them down.
We are both their savior and their destroyer.
And without us, they do not exist.
Without us, their world can never be.
And so we tear open our hearts and release a tale that our mind must translate for others to consume.
“It might not be as good as I want it to be, but it is still better than if I had not written it.” – Allen M Werner

Allen M Werner is the author of the epic dark fantasy series
THE CRYSTAL CRUX