Ask the Author: James Victor Jordan
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James Victor Jordan
Hi Mousa, what's up? Do you have a question about THE SPEED OF LIFE?
James Victor Jordan
Thank you for this excellent question. I don't mean to be evasive, but my answer is not very well. How does one begin a diet? It's mind over inertia, mind over distraction. Once you begin, then the rewards flow.
James Victor Jordan
The freedom to think and to explore with your mind and your feelings.
James Victor Jordan
Read, read, read. Write every day.
James Victor Jordan
I am very excited about my new novel, still under construction. It’s titled The Hunter and the Hunted. It’s about a brother and a sister, twins, who are close until their father dies they have express fierce diametrically opposed views about how to settle his estate. The acrimony becomes so severe that eventually each twin comes to believe that the other plans fratricide. The brother is a semimajor character in The Speed of Life. So again, a character is telling me about his need to keep living in new literature.
James Victor Jordan
When I want to learn about something, to discover, I write to find out about the topic.
James Victor Jordan
When Gabriel García was asked what inspired him to write One Hundred Years of Solitude, he said: “Ice.” I cannot say that for me there was such a single moment of clarity. Over the years in short stories, I’d created a handful of characters who were still speaking to me, who wanted further development. I wanted to write about the Everglades as I grew up in south Florida, I wanted to write about shamanism, religion and spirituality because of my grandfather. When I imagined the crime, the novel came together.
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