Ask the Author: P.K. Davies
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P.K. Davies
I am a very iniquisitive person so I don't let things become mysteries; I will persevere until I find the answers and then they are no longer mysteries. But there is one incident I experienced which has no logical answer. I referred to it in my upcoming book, The Girl Of Drovers's Hill. I was driving along a semi-rural road. There was a young mother walking on the sidewalk with a child, about three years of age. The child was on the inside of the woman and was picking up leaves from the tree-lined area they were passing (it was autumn). As I approached I had a very strange feeling and, for no known reason I slowed to almost walking pace. When I reached the woman and child, the child suddernly darted from the inside of the woman into the middle of the road to pick-up a leaf. Of course, I was able to stop without touching her. I will never forget the woman's face as she looked at me through the windscreen. Like me, she is probably still wondering what happened - or rather, what didn't happen.
P.K. Davies
November 2020. Donald Trump is reelected.
P.K. Davies
I would choose two adventures, both coincidentally of the same period. I would want to share my youth with Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. Mark Twain's classic evokes the freedom of youth in a world of mystery and adventure in a social environment that has now disappeared in a world of doubt and fear. Then I might have graduated to an adult adventure; sharing Joshua Slocum's round the world voyage in Spray in 1898. No one now knows what he knew about tides and weather patterns; he could detect a storm one thousand miles away by the feel of the ocean. He was the last link to those days of sail boats; hundreds of years of knowledge now replaced by electronic gadgets and super tech materials. I would also have loved to have seen his face when the President of South Africa told him the world was flat after he had sailed around most of it.
P.K. Davies
I will be reading group reads on GR in order to lend support to our authors.
Beyond that I have no specific plans; I tend to read what suddenly catches my interest or what I need to know.
Beyond that I have no specific plans; I tend to read what suddenly catches my interest or what I need to know.
P.K. Davies
Most of the books I'm working on are adapted from screen plays I had written. Being once an actor I was always trying to write a good part or two. But, like genius, it is not about inspiration; it is about sweat.
P.K. Davies
In my published book Getting Tyson, I have promised my next book, The Girl Of Drovers' Hill, will soon be available. I thought I had finished that book and was just polishing it. But I have rewritten a lot of it; it is giving me problems, it is a comlicated plotline, but I am on the home straight. I have another book also 'finished'. It needs one element to be tidied up. It is an espionage thriller called A Russian Marriage.
P.K. Davies
Write. Write anything. And when you've written try writing it again, and again.
P.K. Davies
I'm not sure there has ever been a best thing. There have been best moments; when something happens while writing, as though someone else is writing for you. You say 'where did that come from'. That is magic.
P.K. Davies
I'm not sure what that is; sometimes, quite often, my mind gets blocked even mid-sentence; trying to find the right word to send me on, or when sub-consciously I know I am not on the right path. I have to leave it there and go on to something else before coming back to it. Story or plotwise it's rather similar. One has to think of it a bit like a game of chess without being clocked; it takes time, don't force it. Go elsewhere, do something physical. It will unravel in one moment of inspiration.
P.K. Davies
Getting Tyson is rewoven from a screen play I had written. As an ex-actor I had always tried to write screen or stage plays but without success. So I thought, "Sod them! I'll do it myself. "Hence a self-published, self-formatted, self-edited, self covered novel. Pity I can't self sell it.
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