Writer's Block, Recovery, and Hope: David Deane Haskell on Solarian Deep and Wounded Angels – The Writing Coach Ep. 242
Welcome back to The Writing Coach podcast.
Today I'm joined from Japan by David Deane Haskell, an indie sci-fi and nonfiction author and a former professional drummer who once played trash cans at Tokyo Disneyland.
We're talking writer's block, recovery, AI, and why hope belongs in science fiction.
David published four sci-fi novels between 2013 and 2019, including Emergence, a book about AI that turned out to be ahead of its time. Then, after getting sober, he hit a five-year writer's block. When it lifted, almost to the day, the floodgates opened: first the undersea first-contact novel…
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