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Brothers Brumm
heh, I dunno about anytime *very* soon, unfortunately writing is very much a crammed-into-spare-time thing, to be giving any serious thought about whether or not to be going further with them at any faster sort of a rate - I'll be trundling along at whatever rate the time allows I guess, unless or until this sort of thing becomes a means to an end - pipedream stuff, but it'd be nice :) Oh and thanks, I'll go and have a look at the review a bit later on, gotta dash just now...
Brothers Brumm
Heh - I'm guessing there must be a delay between posting your question and having it appear? I hope my last repy came through okay, let me know if not and I'll have another go at it...
Brothers Brumm
Hi Gwen - thanks, glad to hear you're enjoying the book! Also glad to hear that the thematic elements are being picked up on - and generally speaking, they are deliberate, hehe - I'm hoping there's an equal mix of those that are obvious, and the odd one or two that maybe sneak under the radar.
As for your second question, that's a little trickier to answer - the dual authorship thing here is a bit of a sneaky one, and might be a bit of a tl:dr thing, but it's this: while the main book is authored by myself (younger brother Jo), its parts are joined together by big brother's inserts; these were actually written quite a while ago as part of a magazine-thing we used to run alongside the game(s) we played that this book (and whatever others might follow) is based on - so Ian's authorship was taken care of before the main book was even begun, as it were; also the main idea behind the creation of this book's 'universe' was Ian's - so in real terms he's at very least an equal in the making of the book, as far as all of that's concerned. I'm guessing this is rather different to the way in which your planned joint-effort is going to come together, so I don't know if that great long road to nowhere that I've just led you down is likely to be of much use, sorry I couldn't be more help on that.
Anyway hopefully your friendship is a long-held and well-established one that will weather whatever storms might arise from your collaborative efforts (hopefully none though!)
Thanks very much for your interest- I'll look forward to seeing what you make of *my* efforts, once you've got through it all - and to what you come up with in your own writing...
As for your second question, that's a little trickier to answer - the dual authorship thing here is a bit of a sneaky one, and might be a bit of a tl:dr thing, but it's this: while the main book is authored by myself (younger brother Jo), its parts are joined together by big brother's inserts; these were actually written quite a while ago as part of a magazine-thing we used to run alongside the game(s) we played that this book (and whatever others might follow) is based on - so Ian's authorship was taken care of before the main book was even begun, as it were; also the main idea behind the creation of this book's 'universe' was Ian's - so in real terms he's at very least an equal in the making of the book, as far as all of that's concerned. I'm guessing this is rather different to the way in which your planned joint-effort is going to come together, so I don't know if that great long road to nowhere that I've just led you down is likely to be of much use, sorry I couldn't be more help on that.
Anyway hopefully your friendship is a long-held and well-established one that will weather whatever storms might arise from your collaborative efforts (hopefully none though!)
Thanks very much for your interest- I'll look forward to seeing what you make of *my* efforts, once you've got through it all - and to what you come up with in your own writing...
Brothers Brumm
I'll read something in a similar genre - or watch a film/series etc. - perhaps to get into the right mood or mindset, but also to make certain that whatever it is I'm trying to hammer out, isn't getting stuck in my brainjam because it's too close to something I've already seen or read, and that maybe my subconscious is stopping me from treading in somebody else's tracks. It can be just as effective though to step out-of-genre with any of those suggestions, like taking a palate-cleanser before starting the next course, as it were.
Brothers Brumm
- difficult to tie it to just one thing: obviously, the ability to put an idea into words on paper and see/feel it visualised somewhere other than in your mind's eye; better still when somebody other than yourself reads it, understands it, gets it - so that you can assure yourself at last that you haven't just indulged yourself in some bizarre disjointed ramble that only makes sense in the spaghetti-mess of your own knotted noggin!
Brothers Brumm
The hardest thing for me has always been finding the time to actually write, so I think from my point of view at least that must be the prime piece of the puzzle: I wrote book one in half-hour lunchbreaks, train journeys, traffic jams, and the occasional hour-before-bed and hour-before-work, likewise when proof-reading and editing. I'm assuming different things work for different people, I don't know if I'd function as well or better if I was writing for a living and just having all that time *for* writing. It'd be nice to find out!
Brothers Brumm
Usually far too many things at once! The second book of wyrdworld is gently fermenting both in-head and on paper; I'm not a writer for a living so the proper job tends to intrude a lot on my musings, even when I'm not actually at work; and then I also sculpt, which takes up the rest of whatever spare time is left when I'm not trying to write...
Brothers Brumm
- in all sorts of ways - whether having a lightbulb-moment in the middle of a day's work (and needing to find a scrap of paper or a notebook right at that second), or catching a well-turned phrase in a book or on whatever version of a screen I might be watching - or conversely a badly-executed one that makes me wonder if I could do it better. But I suppose mainly, inspiration comes - even if only in the desire to write, if not necessarily the actual doing of it - from reading in and of itself.
Brothers Brumm
It's been floating around as a big item to be ticked off the 'to do' list for a long while - I guess that's true for a lot of writers starting out. The idea comes from the several stories tied up in the D&D and similar games we used to play when younger, and the other games we ran after that which had tie-ins to those in one way or another: such that there are several versions of these alternate realities from which to draw upon, that also link into *this* reality in various ways - whether referencing/homaging other writers, or stories, or films, etc. Hopefully in a way that doesn't get too convoluted and too clever for its own good!
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