![]() ![]() But you can mostly do it.) What I needed was a big idea. You do, at some point, have to have a plot. And it turns out, you can’t write an entire novel just about soldiers making jokes and doing ridiculous things. And they bought it.īut then reality set in. I’ve got the first act of this thing and it’s a lot of fun to write. When I finished my three-book series, it came time to pitch something new to my publisher, and I thought, what the hell. Uh…I mean, because I have artistic integrity and those were the books that were speaking to me at the time. Turns out, they did.Īnd so things went the way publishing things do, and I ended up writing two more books in that series because, well…I like to eat, and somebody wanted to pay me to write them. Basically it was something fun for me to write while I waited to see if publishers wanted my other novel. And the novel featured two jackass somewhat immature soldiers who did things their own way and told a lot of jokes. At that time, all I really had was the idea that I wanted to write Kelly’s Heroes in space. I started writing this back in 2016, while I was waiting for my first novel, Planetside, to sell. I think part of that is due to when I started it. I didn’t start writing The Misfit Soldier with a big idea. When does a novel need a Big Idea? Sometimes an author starts with one, but then other times, as Michael Mammay tells you regarding his new novel The Misfit Soldier, it arrives on its own schedule. ![]()
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