Ask the Author: Tone Wasbak Melbye
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Tone Wasbak Melbye
When I got really mad they finally told me why I had been feeling fragmented. They had tried to wake me, but it hadn't gone as intended.
Tone Wasbak Melbye
I found T. S Eliot's 'On poetry and poets' and Rollo May's 'The courage to create' a great support.
Writing is basically stealing fire from the gods (real or not). You will probably not escape unharmed (or without damages to your liver). Knowing the risks prepares you for them.
Writing is basically stealing fire from the gods (real or not). You will probably not escape unharmed (or without damages to your liver). Knowing the risks prepares you for them.
Tone Wasbak Melbye
What first inspired me to write was a sense of cultural loneliness. Not a lot of stories are written for me. They are often told by and for the people around the camp-fire, and not the creatures lurking in the shadows of existence. I need to write my own world to have a metaphorical place to live.
Now I write for all the other creatures out there.
Now I write for all the other creatures out there.
Tone Wasbak Melbye
The best thing about being a writer is that I get to keep my personal and particular madness without having to conform to an agreed-upon 'real', other than in everyday dealings with other people. And that's just good manners.
Tone Wasbak Melbye
The best way to deal with writer's block it to nuke it from orbit.
I'm not really joking. I try to take a step back from both me, my life and my work and see what I'm trying to do here. Often, it's not what I think I'm doing.
I'm not really joking. I try to take a step back from both me, my life and my work and see what I'm trying to do here. Often, it's not what I think I'm doing.
Tone Wasbak Melbye
I get my ideas from life, from the places I have lived and traveled. But I always fictionalise the characters and mix things up with the weird workings of my own mind and inner landscape.
Tone Wasbak Melbye
Currently, I'm working on a collection of horror-shorts inspired by the city of Kristiansand in Norway. A dark and strange place in eternal sunshine on the languid south coast.
They are almost true recollections of my time living there.
Watch my blog for updates and interesting pieces from the town's history .
They are almost true recollections of my time living there.
Watch my blog for updates and interesting pieces from the town's history .
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