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Matt Kaplan
I have an intuitive feeling when it is a good time to write. If that feeling is there, regardless of the time of day, I use it and get writing. Sometimes my mind is just not in the right place to write. If I try to force myself when I am not "in the mode" I find that the effort is just a giant waste of time and I get blocked. I cannot fix this. I just work around it by seizing the moment when I have the lucidity to write well.
Matt Kaplan
I was inspired to write Victor's Legacy whilst visiting my wife's uncle and auntie in Northern Finland. I was making a couple of cups of tea for the family and, as I spooned sugar into a cup, I noticed that the silver sugar spoon had a swastika on it. Our northern Finnish family is lovely and definitely not a bunch of extremists. Thus, this finding led me to query how on Earth a silver sugar spoon with a swastika ended up in their home. This path led me to the part that their family played in World War II when Finland allied with Hitler in the battle against Russia, the Winter War with Russia and during the Finnish rebellion against the tsar. The deeper I delved, the more intriguing the story got. I had been thinking about writing an historic science fiction novel for quite some time and these discoveries proved the perfect catalyst.
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