Ask the Author: Michael Putegnat
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Michael Putegnat
Thank you, Alfonso!
It is a delight to hear from you and am so glad you enjoyed the book. It starts out not far from you in Koln.
You should take a look at my latest book which is centered in Berlin. "Hunting Tobias". Check it out on Amazon. I am thankful for the great reviews it is getting. Another page turner, it spans from 1932 to 1998, from Berlin, Salzburg, Zurich, Rio de Janeiro, Cambridge, Massachusetts. I'd love to read what you think of it. Best to you!
It is a delight to hear from you and am so glad you enjoyed the book. It starts out not far from you in Koln.
You should take a look at my latest book which is centered in Berlin. "Hunting Tobias". Check it out on Amazon. I am thankful for the great reviews it is getting. Another page turner, it spans from 1932 to 1998, from Berlin, Salzburg, Zurich, Rio de Janeiro, Cambridge, Massachusetts. I'd love to read what you think of it. Best to you!
Michael Putegnat
Climbing over the top of the wall, he slipped and fell into the brush on the other side. When he gathered his senses, he could see a sign that read: "Beware of whatever it was that ate my Rottweilers."
Michael Putegnat
My father was not forthcoming about his time in the U.S. Army Air Corp during World War II, but in the last year of his life he mentioned to me that had there been a third atom bomb dropped on Japan, he would be on that crew. He never elaborated.
Michael Putegnat
This week, anyway, I'd want to go to Manderley, in Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca. I would first fire the Housekeeper and install a fire depression system. I'd get a new sailboat for the boathouse...where I would want to spend lots of time writing. Did I mention the new media room in the mansion?
Michael Putegnat
I'm not sure that this isn't a set of kinds of blockages instead of just one. The first big obstacles is finding a story that will sustain a long commitment. If I don't really like a choice, I have to give it up. The day-to-day dealing with obstacles and problems is more like puzzle solving. And when I can't seem to break through one, I simply move on to something else and come back. A book has lots of parts. They don't need to be written in order. Finally, the one best antidote for overcoming a drought is to go out into the 'real world' and just observe and experience things. The mind will use it as analog and symbol for things in the book automatically. It's amazing, really, how it unjams the logs.
Michael Putegnat
The dreamy trance of being "in the write." I can disappear for hours, days, weeks as every waking thought is about imagining scenes and solving plot problems. Then, when I do fall asleep, the dreaming continues. I say this is the best thing about being a writer, but not so great for those who surround me. I suppose it must like living with a comatose person. To them my apologies. I will come up for air occasionally...
Michael Putegnat
Always start in the middle. There's no way early on to know the best ending and way too soon to pick the best start.
Michael Putegnat
I'm looking for the next idea. I sense that the next books will be in a series, focusing on the same set of characters going through a progression of challenges in their lives. I like stories that hide the acorn and surprise at the end, the twisting tale (tail?).
Michael Putegnat
Something striking and moving that I read in the news that sends my imagination racing to fill in the missing details. I like writing about ordinary people who do extraordinary things.
Michael Putegnat
My father died in 2015 and my sisters and I were clearing out his old home, where we grew up. Memories and images flooded back of long-ago days gone by and the lives that unfolded. My father was WWII Army Air Corp bomber crew, who was about to be deployed to the Pacific for raids on Japan but was spared by the ending of the war. All this gave inspiration to a story that meant to capture all our feelings, simple and complicated, that attended this time and his life.
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