Ask the Author: Amy Quick Parrish
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Amy Quick Parrish
Harry Potter's world, where I'd go to Hogsmeade and drink butterbeer and watch the snow fall outside. (Snape's voice) : Obviously. :)
Amy Quick Parrish
Right now I'm reading a great time travel book called Kindred. I'm also looking forward to the new book by Adriana Mather, who wrote How to Hang a Witch. It's called Haunting the Deep. Then others: KJ Waters has a new time travel book out called Shattering Time. I have a stack of books I've been meaning to get to: All the Light We Can Not See, a memoir called Dryland and a couple of others - specifically, I'm going to read a LOT of non-fiction to research a new project!
Amy Quick Parrish
This is a hard question because fictional couples work best when they aren't together. A happy couple makes for a boring story. I think some of my favorite couples only had a few scenes together. For example, in Pulp Fiction, I always liked the way Butch worked so hard to control his raging temper around Fabienne. After the terrible experience with Marcellus and the Gimp and Zed, he still listens to her woes about how they didn't have blueberry pancakes; she had to get buttermilk. It's a little detail and they're not major characters in the movie, but here's a guy with a completely different life than that of his girlfriend and yet he takes the time to listen to her and has empathy for her problems, however minor they may be. Her character also shows another side of him that you would never have expected.
I also really like Sarah Conner and Kyle Reese from the original Terminator. They only had the one night together, but, as he said, he travelled through time for her. Best pick up line ever! I love that he fell in love with her because of a photo John gave him and when Sarah finally takes the photo, she is thinking about Kyle. Time loops are the best.
I also really like Sarah Conner and Kyle Reese from the original Terminator. They only had the one night together, but, as he said, he travelled through time for her. Best pick up line ever! I love that he fell in love with her because of a photo John gave him and when Sarah finally takes the photo, she is thinking about Kyle. Time loops are the best.
Amy Quick Parrish
I've been writing screenplays for a long time. It's amazing to see your characters come to life -- to hear an actor read your lines, to see them standing there in the scenery you wrote, and all of that. But there are so many compromises that have to be made when you make a movie. I have to say, there's nothing more satisfying (and also terrifying) than knowing you can flat out just write something, publish it and then BOOM - people are holding your book in their hands. They're going to be able to read exactly what you wrote (for better or for worse!)
Amy Quick Parrish
Write whatever you want. Don't let anyone tell you what you're supposed to write, how you're supposed to be, or what should interest you. If something strikes you and you're passionate about it, write it.
Amy Quick Parrish
I write around it -- If I'm not sure what's next, I might skip to a scene where I do know what's happening, or even work on another project. Exercise, cleaning, getting out in the world -- all those things help.
Amy Quick Parrish
There was a song called "Pistolero" by Juno Reactor that, to me, sounded like a girl flying across the desert. I couldn't get the image out of my mind. I started wondering how a girl would get special abilities. My grandparents had both died recently, so the idea of exploring death, grief and loss was something I was thinking about a lot. Also, I was teaching high school in Texas. Swirl all those together, squeeze the metaphorical tube of toothpaste, and this is what comes out!
Amy Quick Parrish
Currently working on book #2 in the series, tentatively titled La Tempestad.
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