Ask the Author: Guy Burt
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Guy Burt
Living in the world of the book. Getting to know the characters. You miss them once it's finished.
Guy Burt
I'm just returning to novel-writing (after a 20 year gap). It feels very much like starting from scratch: I'll need a new agent, new publisher... that stuff is daunting. But at the same time there's the sense of having spent the time getting to grips with what I want to write, and how I want to do it; so I think the hiatus was necessary.
Guy Burt
Best and simplest advice: You have to write. Not plan, make lists, prepare your writing desk, outline your story. You can do those things too but do them for tomorrow's session, and do them at the end of the day. The first thing is to write. Get words down, even if they're not good ones. You can rewrite them later.
Guy Burt
The novel I've been working on for the past couple of years – after a long, long hiatus from book-writing – came from thinking about how scared I was of nuclear war back in the 1980s. As a kid I was convinced that World War 3 was just around the corner; I read post-apocalyptic pulp fiction avidly; I tried to plan how I'd survive if the nukes fell. So the novel is centred around that fear.
It's also an unashamed paean to geekdom: all those hours spent programming Spectrums and BBC Bs, painting D&D miniatures and reading Judge Dredd, long before being a geek became retro-fashionable, creep into the book.
And it's also a love story, of sorts.
It's also an unashamed paean to geekdom: all those hours spent programming Spectrums and BBC Bs, painting D&D miniatures and reading Judge Dredd, long before being a geek became retro-fashionable, creep into the book.
And it's also a love story, of sorts.
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