Ask the Author: Kendric Neal
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Kendric Neal
I've spent years of my life not writing. I don't know why, it's what I've always wanted to do. Now, I don't seem to have the problem, so I'm thankful.
Kendric Neal
In an uncontrollable world, you get to control something of your own. Trying to make it mean something, trying to make it clarify some of the uncontrollable aspects of the real world, that's the real challenge and that's where the real fun is. Picasso said, "Art is a lie that tells the truth." If you can use fantasy or imagination to somehow get at a greater and not-so-obvious truth, you've really done something.
Kendric Neal
Write every day.
Kendric Neal
I'm concentrating on finishing my next book, "The Death of Marith Keene", about a woman forced into a survival situation by her estranged ex-husband. It's my first book, actually, but has dense, interwoven themes and I keep having to shelve it and come back to it to get the themes to work together properly. She's alone in the wilderness for most of the book, and that's a real challenge, using memories and imagined scenes with loved ones to push the story and help her survive the ordeal.
Kendric Neal
For me the most important thing is to start in the morning, every morning, early as possible. If I don't, it's hard to get started later. Something about phone calls and emails and to-do lists seem to kill inspiration.
Kendric Neal
My most recent book is a first draft of the next Coach Mack book (a follow-up to "To the Metal", about a fired junior high coach turned private detective). Ideas for detective stories come to me all the time, I wanted to take it somewhere intense and serious, having him deal with a potentially dangerous family that lives up in the hills and no one knows much about. They deal meth now, but they are the descendants of moonshiners and for a long now there've been roads up these mountains the police don't go. Coach Mack, however, will have no choice.
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