Ask the Author: David Rae
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David Rae
I'm currently working on a Novel THE LEPIDOPTERIST'S BEAUTIFULL DAUGHTER that is very loosely based on my life. It about those little moments, things caught from the corner of your eye, and what if they were real?
David Rae
Enjoy the ride. There will certainly be ups and downs, remember the good times and the bad. And always remember your work is valid and worthwhile no matter what. There is a market for everything, you just have to find it.
David Rae
I'm currently working on a "Tartan Noir," although I like to think of it as Paisley Gothic. It's a crime story based on my home town and although it a "Suspense," I hope that the real interst will be with characters involved and their motivation and stories rather than just a sort of hard boiled pulp fiction. Think more Cat on A hot Tin Roof, or They Shoot Horses Don't They, but set in a decaying Northern mill town.
David Rae
Get writing, inspiration will come. If you have a story to tell then tell it. I don't really know where it comes from. And you have to accept that sometimes writing is a slog. But at other times is so fulfilling
David Rae
Two things, firstly holding the finished work in your hands (or on your kindle) there is emense satisfaction in saying I did that. The other big thing I love is getting feedback. Even negative feedback. It is like you have shared something with someone. Like they have seen inside of you.
David Rae
That's a hard one. Sometimes it's not really writer's block, and a scene or plot element needs resolved before you can move on. Or sometimes the scene is quite draining to write, it's a murder or death for example. I think the best thing to do is try and think what is stopping you from writing and resolve the issue. If it just fear and imposter syndrom, then realising that in itself will help
David Rae
Pool thick with weeds. Tread with care past deep water. Plashing droplets count the silence. Where is Jenny? She waits below. A gentle push and in. She is still, then feeds and then is still again.
David Rae
I think it would have to be Middle Earth. I'd love to be let in to Lothlorian or Rivendell, but maybe this is Middle Earth and certainly there has been places I've been that could certainly be magical. I'd also like to go Gene Wolfe's Urth. But only for a visit, it seems quite a strange and frightening place.
David Rae
I have a lot, I'm reading Isuelt Murphy's Seven Days in Hell and I also have The Hidden King by E.G. Radcliffe on my kindle, as well as Brian Smallbrook's Wizard Ruse. I must admit browsing in bookshops is one of the big things I miss during lock down. I can't wait to get out and see what is new. I do read a lot of the classics too, and I've just picked up The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro. I'm also definately open to suggestions
David Rae
Crowman is based on North American and Western Pacific legends about the a time when the sun was kept in box by a great spirit and then liberated by the Crow. I started to think what such a world would be like and how it would be possible to set the sun free. I must admit that living in Sub-arctic Norway for a time, gave me some insights into how such a world would feel. But I drew inspiration from lots of sorces and even learned how to tell the time by the position and phase of the moon.
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