Ask the Author: Iain M. Rodgers
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Iain M. Rodgers
I'd like to go through the Looking Glass with Alice. But I wouldn't want to do anything specific. I'd simply want to observe what goes on there. If I had to live and interact as a real person I would visit the guys in Great Expectations and try to prevent one or two of the disasters from happening. It would be a fairly boring book thanks to my intervention.
Iain M. Rodgers
My reading list for any year is not seasonal. I'll plod through my list at a steady pace, reading whatever takes my fancy at the time. If I find something particularly difficult to read I'll follow it with something easy. I have ambitions to read some pretty heavy Russian literature next year. After that, I will need a rest - I might even resort to reading the Alice books again.
Iain M. Rodgers
Thanks very much and belated Merry Christmas. I'm not a snake myself (IMHO) but it's symbolic and relevant to the Zima Confession in some way which I don't want to reveal. You'll need to read the book!
Iain M. Rodgers
This is a tricky question. There are many good things.
1. Reading - you have to read a lot. Since deciding to write my book I have tried to expand my reading habits to include authors that I might not have considered otherwise.
2. You get to use your imagination and are allowed to develop ideas that you might not otherwise be able to spend time on.
3. It makes you try to observe people and events more carefully.
I can think of downsides to all three of these points but I'm going to leave my answer as naively positive for now.
1. Reading - you have to read a lot. Since deciding to write my book I have tried to expand my reading habits to include authors that I might not have considered otherwise.
2. You get to use your imagination and are allowed to develop ideas that you might not otherwise be able to spend time on.
3. It makes you try to observe people and events more carefully.
I can think of downsides to all three of these points but I'm going to leave my answer as naively positive for now.
Iain M. Rodgers
I re-read what I've already written and fiddle around with it. Please note - this might be bad advice! The obvious danger is I will endlessly fiddle with the same bits of writing. It only works if I get a new idea of some sort to add on to whatever is already there.
Iain M. Rodgers
I'm working on a very peculiar book that is a mixture of magic realism, horror and sci-fi. It might not work!
Iain M. Rodgers
If I think I have an original enough idea I'll give it a go. If not, I'm happy to leave it to others and read instead.
Iain M. Rodgers
I was working for a financial software company when I was made redundant. I wasn't too happy about that and the circumstances which led to it. So I was a bit annoyed. At the same time, I thought back to my student days, when I had been very left-wing and I wondered what my younger self would have made of it all.
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