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strong>Joining us today is Will Terry, author of Situational Dyslexia from “An Honest Lie, Volume 1: Encouraging the Delinquency of your Inner Child.“

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Hi Will. The title of your story “Situational Dyslexia” conjures many questions. What is that exactly?

Situational Dyslexia is a make believe illness, similar to sequential order deficiency. The character who has it does things and doesn’t remember doing them until after its over. It depends on the situation. Sometimes his brain tries to protect him like this.

Have you had other pieces of work published or is “Situational Dyslexia” the first?

I have some work published in Dallas by The Pannhandler, in Philadelphia by The Vivid Literary Journal, and in Florida by The Corporal. This will be my first piece published in a book.

You strike me as the kind of guy who could make a success out of any endeavor. What made you want to become a writer?

My favorite teachers were always English teachers. My fourth grade teacher submitted a poem of mine and it was published when I was very young. People in my school just referred to me as a writer from then on and I got used to it.

Okay. I need you to put on your imagination hat. If you could be any character from any story, who would you be and why?

I would be Case from Neuromancer by William Gibson. He lives in a cyberpunk world of permanent night and that sort of thing agrees with me.

Very interesting, Will. Henry Dorsett Case is an impressive character. Let me ask you about a different kind of character, one from around the house, say, a pet. Have you ever felt as if your pet held you in contempt?

I had an epeleptic cat who had have seizures whenever people would come over. It made dates interesting.

What else might our readers find in your house? Are there any skeletons in your closet that we might find fascinating?

I sometimes use what I call the writing process dartboard. It’s a complex system of swinging hula hoops from the ceiling and aiming at different genres, character ideas, and plots with a dart. There are pictures of it on my website at www.philosopherdown.com.

Getting back to your writing, what other sorts of creative writing are you involved in?

I manage a website for aspiring writers in Austin. It’s www.philosopherdown.com. I’m working on a manuscript for a novel called “Trash Librarian”.

Well, there we have it, a brief look into the mind of Will Terry. Look for his exciting story in “An Honest Lie, Volume 1: Encouraging the Delinquency of your Inner Child,” coming this fall to a bookstore near you!

Visit Will Terry at
www.philosopherdown.com

Will Terry is twenty five year old writer from Austin Texas where he is a student at Austin Community College . He is currently working on a bachelors degree in Social Work with aspirations for a masters degree in English. His work has been published by The Panhandler in Houston , The Vivid Literary Journal in Pennsylvania , and the Armageddon Buffet E-zine. He maintains a website for aspiring writers at www.philosopherdown.com. His writing centers on humorous exaggerated interactions between men and women. “Situational Dyslexia” focuses on the tendency for people to set themselves up for confusion and only figure out after why. Some authors that he admires are Louis Ferdinand Celine, Charles Bukowski, and J.G. Ballard. His philosophy to writing centers on embellishing personal experience.