Ask the Author: Mansoor Nazeer
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Mansoor Nazeer
I picked up one book, then another and yet another until I had opened, shut and thrown on the floor every single one that had stood for years on the shelf. Blank, desolate pages, void of the dear stories I had read so many times, empty of the words of so many lovingly envied authors, stared back at me in ghostly silence.
Mansoor Nazeer
John Dee by Charlotte Fell Smith (currently reading)
Morandi's Last Prophecy and the End of Renaissance Politics by B. Dooley
Morandi's Last Prophecy and the End of Renaissance Politics by B. Dooley
Mansoor Nazeer
1. Read a lot.
2. Never let anything that arises in the heart enter writing unless it is scrutinized and sobered by the head.
3. Omit needless words (Strunk and White)
4. Don't take your writing too seriously; yourself even less
2. Never let anything that arises in the heart enter writing unless it is scrutinized and sobered by the head.
3. Omit needless words (Strunk and White)
4. Don't take your writing too seriously; yourself even less
Mansoor Nazeer
I'm working on how to make time to write. There is absolutely none. There is material from fourteen years ago (very poor but not without promise) which I want to develop into a novel. It's inspired by Paul Simon's song 'A Most Peculiar Man'.
Mansoor Nazeer
Days of inspiration are rare. For the most part, one plods on and doesn't give up in honour of "the ethics of craftsmanship", to use Thomas Mann's phrase.
Mansoor Nazeer
From life. I like true crime - I'm intrigued by how the criminal mind works (and what humans are capable of). I started writing, thinking that I was going to do a psychological study of a deviant/misfit. But as it often happens, one starts somewhere and one ends up somewhere entirely unexpected.
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