Ask the Author: Robert Kettering
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Robert Kettering
"Watch out!"
"What?"
"What?"
Robert Kettering
Of fictional book worlds, I'd be tempted to choose "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea," where I might search for the plug (like a bathtub plug), and pulling it, evacuate through the sewer system of book worlds to infinitely larger worlds and seas of adventure, without eyestrain or non-fictional bends.
Robert Kettering
No reading plans for this summer, though doubtless swarms of books will dive at me out of the sun. Currently I'm reading "this and that", which I think is a good group title, plus "Diary of a Mad Old Man" by Junichior Taniwaki.
Robert Kettering
At the end of life, at the end of the long, long trail, to at last enter the Lost and Found Department, where everything that had been lost may be found, where all mysteries may be solved, where my old roller-skates may be located...I've looked everywhere else.
Robert Kettering
Dear Esdaile,
I don't know exactly (since getting on the Goodreads site was done for me by technically advanced people), but I guess it's fairly easy once you have written and published a book. After reading your review of The White Devil, I think technical puzzles won't be much a challenge for you.
Best regards,
Bob Kettering
I don't know exactly (since getting on the Goodreads site was done for me by technically advanced people), but I guess it's fairly easy once you have written and published a book. After reading your review of The White Devil, I think technical puzzles won't be much a challenge for you.
Best regards,
Bob Kettering
Robert Kettering
I got the idea for Ticket On A Crippled Crab from a set of offbeat characters and wacky situations while knocking around the great city of Paris. These characters and situations fired up hot spots in my brain that led to an outpouring of words that I hoped readers would find profound and compelling and worthy of purchase and applause.
Robert Kettering
By searching for injustice. When found, sympathy is aroused for what wasn't but should have been.
Robert Kettering
A murder mystery in which willful characters come together in a clash of competitive ambitions. I may drop it because I see no theme, just an old merry-go-round - but I guess that could be a theme.
Robert Kettering
Aspiring writers should go on aspiring, although feigning indifference to commercial angles to such things may be advisable in the interests of dignity.
Robert Kettering
Like the old chewing-gum ad, writing doubles your fun, especially the fun of playing God with characters you can make more susceptible than yourself to irony, paradox and illusions of understanding. Good clean fun. But watch out for the irony of irony of irony, as well as the backside of paradox and your understanding of real illusions (ask Plato about that the next time you see him or his shadow).
Robert Kettering
By writing. Also by not writing. This is somewhat similar to how volcanoes deal with dormancy and eruption.
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