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It allows your fingers to be busy while your mind wanders the paths of the narrative.Īs for how it’s helped me: even if I’m not working on my story in particular – if I’m acting in someone elses’ work – my assessing mind is always on. I used to sketch my characters and draw scenes, but lately I’ve been creating costumes based on some of the character’s wardrobes, or building jewellery to tie in – it’s a way to be engaged with the world without the stress of having to get the writing right. I think it’s always important to have a way to engage with your story in ways that are different from putting the right words in the right order. You have your voice and only your voice, and you have to put everything into that. You have no facial expressions, no flicks of the eyes or fingers, no gestures, no costumes to help you convey character. I think it’s because you only HAVE your voice to do all the work with. There’s nothing quite so wild and wonderful as standing in an itty bitty sound booth, surrounded by grey eggshell soundproofing with headphones bigger than your head clamped to your ears screaming, laughing, singing, and gasping for breath through a song or a character’s dialogue or a commercial jingle.

Oh, I absolutely have the most fun doing the voice acting and singing. Also, which of your many non-writing projects was the most fun to do? Tell us a little about how a life rich with creativity impacts your writing. You do a lot of other things besides writing – acting, modeling, singing. Frey, author of a number of works including TRIPTYCH and THE DARK SIDE OF GLASS! Toronto-based J.M Frey (pronounced “fry”) is a science fiction and fantasy author, as well as a fanthropologist and pop culture scholar who appears in podcasts, documentaries, and on television to discuss all things geeky through the lens of academia. Every day in the first two weeks of August, a different author will be posting an interview of one of our fellow Success Stories, so make sure to tune in to everyone’s blogs! Welcome to what will hopefully be the first of the Annual Authoress’ Success Story blog tours! Those of us who have owed our publishing successes, at least in part, to the Miss Snark’s First Victim contests and blog have decided to come together and help cross promote each other’s work.