Tetragrammaton

Tetragrammaton You write a new book about self-doubt, you know, I'm a big believer that self-doubt is a good thing.

And so even when the voice is telling me, you know, maybe this isn't such a great thing that you're working on, I'll push through pretty

much all the time. And usually it works out. When do you know it's worthy of committing to an idea,

concept? When is it clear to you? I think it's just an instinctive thing for me, you know? I kind of

asked myself, I'm sure you ask yourself a similar question, if I wasn't going to make any money from this, if I knew this was just going to be only for me and that's the end of it, would I still do it?

And I really want to say yes to that.

And if I can't say yes to that, then I'm not going to do it.

So it's just sort of just a feeling for me like

I just got to do this thing. You know, it's started. It's growing in me. I've got to complete

whatever it is for good or ill. Tell me what an initial idea looks like. A lot of times I will have

an idea and I'll write it down and I'll forget about it.

Would the idea be a sentence? Would it be a concept? Would it be a name?

I usually think in concepts, you know. It could be like for instance I have a recurring character in my books, Telemann of Arcadia, the one-man-killing machine of the ancient

world, you know? So I might have an idea like, what's the next Telemont book? Where's he going? And I

might just write that. Another book about Alexander the Great, you want to really get into

details here? Absolutely, always. Okay. As much detail as possible.

Well, here's the story on this one.

And this goes right along with the creative act.

And I brought the book here.

You got to sign this before I leave.

Two sentences came to my mind.

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