Ask the Author: karl levy
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karl levy
I never get writers block. My guess is to go out and experience life and that interaction will make the ideas flow. Going out and not taking part will not work either. never take one's own advice's and do not listen to somebody who is negative for any reason
karl levy
Certainly not the income relative to my previous job but I have an interest in everything and so I can indulge that interest by choosing what i can write about. I also like marketing my work, advertising it, selling it and all the aspects of it so it suits me prefectly
karl levy
My belief is that if one experiences a subject then one can write about it. This may take any form. For example to write Sinarth I took the bus trips and train trips that were described. I went and talked to people involved in the experiences. If somebody was writing a science fiction book obviously that would be impossible, but if one discusses ideas with people on chat boards, reads books, talks to friends then narrative and stories can be developed. Life is stranger than fiction so if one takes apart then there are endless stories. Find out what is important in a situation, look at it form different angles.
karl levy
Sinarth is a book of incredible plurality, that is reality is seen on many different levels often at once. The story though is very simply using simple language. To give an understanding of the levels of plurality, duality, symbolism, Cultural inputs, use of metaphor, religious motifs etc I am completing a book explaining the book, it will be released on Kindle and ibooks
karl levy
For the Book 'Sinarth' I was an Interbank Broker working in Singapore for ex Executives of Lehman Brothers, broking derivatives in oil/shipping making big money. My parents are artists and I had been looking for something else to do. Visiting Cambodia, which was only an hour away I met Sinarth at the Cambodian War Museum and two months later while travelling in Laos, I decided to write his story and give up the corporate world
karl levy
Outlined in the Preface to Sinarth, at the Beginning,
In early 2012, while riding a bike in Vang Vieng, Laos, with a fellow traveller, a Canadian girl by the name of Natalie Rock, I conceived the idea for this book. Stopping my bike on one of the dusty roads leading out of town, Natalie circled around while I picked up my mobile phone and called Sinarth, whom I had met several weeks before at the Cambodian War Museum in Siem Reap. He responded to my offer to write his biography by saying that he was thinking exactly the same thing and, coincidently, had been just about to call me.
In early 2012, while riding a bike in Vang Vieng, Laos, with a fellow traveller, a Canadian girl by the name of Natalie Rock, I conceived the idea for this book. Stopping my bike on one of the dusty roads leading out of town, Natalie circled around while I picked up my mobile phone and called Sinarth, whom I had met several weeks before at the Cambodian War Museum in Siem Reap. He responded to my offer to write his biography by saying that he was thinking exactly the same thing and, coincidently, had been just about to call me.
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