David's first book is a dark fantasy called Crow Man. He currently lives in Scotland and works in the medical field.

We discuss his book and some classic literature. David has great thoughts and advice for new writers.

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TRANSCRIPT:

Stephen 0:48Alright, well, David, welcome back once again, and the magic of the internet. For most people, this is a set separate episode. But you and I haven't stopped talking since the episode where I interviewed you. So today, I wanted to talk a bit about motivation, and how that affects authors and how that can be a problem and ways to motivate yourself. So I'm interested because you brought up the topic, what made this a topic that you'd like to discuss, as it refers to new authors, helping patient is the key to

David Rae 1:23everything sounds like, I'm one of these people that think you've got to hohoho to the end of the row. I'm not like that. For me, whoa, whoa, whoa, mean Santa Claus. But we everything we do we do for a reason and understanding why we do things. And the reasons that we we behave and act and do certain things, is of great benefit to us in all sorts of walks of life. And it's vital for an author to know why they're doing something.

Stephen 1:58I you brought up the topic of talking about motivation. And I'm curious, what made you think of that as an issue for new authors? Or is it something that you've struggled with in your writing?

David Rae 2:13I, I think it is something is important to understand. I think it's a bigger, big topic. And it's only by understanding what motivates us why we do things that we can get the most out of them. And I think it's it's quite important that we realize what it is that motivates us what we really want, what we're looking for, and then maybe we can get it.

Stephen 2:42And so, I guess that naturally leads to the question, what are some of the things you wanted? That led you to writing?

David Rae 2:52Ah, that's a great question. As we already said, I, in a funny kind of, we I'm not motivated to write, I'm just motivated, to, I'm just not motivated to stop writing. It's something that I've always done to tell a story. And I love to tell a story. And every night, every, there's the stories going on, and all around me, you see glimpses of stories, you see, you see an old woman walking down the road, you wonder what's going on there. And just the most present in ordinary things. And once you start to think about these things, your mind goes into all sorts of tangents. And the reason I write is just because all of these thoughts and ideas is there, and it kind of makes them more manageable. Maybe it's just like a filing system. To get all these thoughts and ideas, though, and this to share the way I think the way I feel about things, and in some ways to get more understand people to understand for I thinking about more, until also for me to more understand myself.

Stephen 4:18So just those types of feelings,