Ask the Author: Charles Nevin
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Charles Nevin
I would go on that pilgrimage to Canterbury, listen and laugh.
Charles Nevin
Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus, if only for the profundity of their urination.
Charles Nevin
More short stories, as I find them a form very well suited to the stamina, application and experience of a journalist.
Charles Nevin
Creating something, however unsatisfactory and infuriating, that I'm proud of (and now I'm worried about ending a sentence with a preposition, but have just realised that this rather neatly avoids it).
Charles Nevin
Bloody-minded concentration enlivened by regular interludes of panic.
Charles Nevin
Dogged persistence allied to the unpredictable visitings of ideas. And never forget to write them down!
Charles Nevin
Never give up and never, ever be satisfied with your first thought.
Charles Nevin
It's a collection of mostly humorous short stories drawing on ideas that I've had over the years. For example, I've been intrigued for a long, long time by King John of England, the best bad king in history, wicked and wicked sense of humour. I thought of several ways of writing about him before realising that a monologue as he lay dying would be interesting.
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