Ask the Author: Daniel Gargallo
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Daniel Gargallo
This summer I want to read Julio Cortázar's Rayuela, the Tale of the Heike, and I want to get around to Alan Moore's Jerusalem.
Daniel Gargallo
The blues, angst, negativity. I wrote most of part three while listening to Lana Del Rey's "Ultraviolence," album on repeat. One tried-and-proven formula is to see somebody leave you on a train to the Basque country. I think that the best writing I do is not when I'm feeling the Red Dragon of Artistic Mania flow through my veins, but when I'm making myself work with 15% inspiration levels.
Get a calligraphy pen. A beautiful pen will inspire you. I found a small Waterman in Paris. Give it a fantasy name like, "Lion's Tooth," or "Hearteater." I call mine, "The Blue Destiny."
Get a calligraphy pen. A beautiful pen will inspire you. I found a small Waterman in Paris. Give it a fantasy name like, "Lion's Tooth," or "Hearteater." I call mine, "The Blue Destiny."
Daniel Gargallo
The idea for She Beyond Sun was the intersection of a few things. I had a dream about Hibiscus Island and Alba around the time that I was trying to tell a Portland "7-Year Itch" sort-of story. I found out about Cash's "Holografik Danser" around the same time and thought that it would be interesting to cross-pollinate with an Eva Perón narrative. Creatively the process was like being the android in "Prometheus," inventing new forms of life by intersecting strange and disparate species.
Daniel Gargallo
When I wrote She Beyond Sun I had these expectations that little, practical events needed to transpire before the next big scene as a kind of transition or logistical movement (walking somewhere, going down the elevator). My advice is to write what you want to write and temporarily leave those in-between scenes for later. You may even find that you don't need them.
Daniel Gargallo
Well, it's certainly the magic. I've always liked Warner Brothers cartoons and the idea of putting on a magic show. There's something incredible about coming up with an idea and telling it to your friends, then putting years into a Pages document, and one day a package arrives at your door and it is the book that you imagined all those years ago.
Daniel Gargallo
Whenever I meet with The Resistance it is typically because I have an expectation of where the story should go and getting there seems dubious. For me the question then becomes, "How could I tell this story from here on and really enjoy myself?"
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