Ask the Author: D. Lambert
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D. Lambert
My heritage is Scottish and English but we have a family legend that there is one Spaniard in there from a shipwrecked armada. I have always wondered how that happened! I figure it could make a great story
D. Lambert
My depictions of animals are aways accurate!
The training also helps in many other ways. From an understanding of anatomy, to concepts of disease and old medical therapies, I use my knowledge to build a dirty, realistic, fantasy world. I wanted to ensure the impact of wounds were authentic and the healing processes took the time they needed. I hated seeing near-fatal wounds brushed off in popular fiction.
I even once figured out how dragons could fly in my world. They are one part cow, one part horse inside, it turns out, although their bones are bird-like. And I needed magic to make them fly: no amount of physics could solve the one!
Thanks for asking!
The training also helps in many other ways. From an understanding of anatomy, to concepts of disease and old medical therapies, I use my knowledge to build a dirty, realistic, fantasy world. I wanted to ensure the impact of wounds were authentic and the healing processes took the time they needed. I hated seeing near-fatal wounds brushed off in popular fiction.
I even once figured out how dragons could fly in my world. They are one part cow, one part horse inside, it turns out, although their bones are bird-like. And I needed magic to make them fly: no amount of physics could solve the one!
Thanks for asking!
D. Lambert
I'd love to answer my own World of Taint, but I think I would get into too much trouble there.
I think I would like Louise McMaster Bujold's world within the Vorkosigan series. Mostly, I would hang out on Beta Colony. They sound like my kind of people, and the science would be awesome!
I think I would like Louise McMaster Bujold's world within the Vorkosigan series. Mostly, I would hang out on Beta Colony. They sound like my kind of people, and the science would be awesome!
D. Lambert
I generally have three stories on the go at once (not counting shorts). One novel will be stuck on the climax, one will be in the 'soggy middle' and the last one will be just starting out. So if I'm stuck on one, I can hop to another to keep the words flowing while my subconscious works on the blocked issues.
D. Lambert
Never being alone.
I always have at least three conversations running in my head and if my brain decides to run down a bad road, I can call it back with a story problem.
I always have at least three conversations running in my head and if my brain decides to run down a bad road, I can call it back with a story problem.
D. Lambert
The current book (SoulBurner) came from a sun catcher. The entire world of Taint was born based on a sun catcher my bought in Tofino BC, Canada. It had an enormous dragon on it, much bigger than you'd usually see, and a tiny female rider with a spear. That inspired the War of the Pass story (yet to be released) and all the others that came from the DragonKeeper's saga and beyond.
D. Lambert
Music.
That was easy, wasn't it? But it's true. The kind of music I listen to impacts my writing heavily and I can get inspired by everything from classic barroque piano music to heavy metal. And I find a story has a sound to it. The World of Taint mostly has tones of folk rock, until the final series of five, when they went into full rock and roll...
That was easy, wasn't it? But it's true. The kind of music I listen to impacts my writing heavily and I can get inspired by everything from classic barroque piano music to heavy metal. And I find a story has a sound to it. The World of Taint mostly has tones of folk rock, until the final series of five, when they went into full rock and roll...
D. Lambert
I need to run through an edit of the next book in the World of Taint, which is coming out (I hope) February 2022. But I have two short stories to get out in the next month so the novel is taking the backseat for the moment!
D. Lambert
Keep writing. Don't spend forever editing (although you have to do that too!) but mostly keep putting ideas down and playing with words until you find your voice. Then milk it for all it is worth!
D. Lambert
I wish I had more time for reading! I still want to get through "Fire with Wire" by Charles E. Gannon (recommended by my husband) and I've now got the next book of Evan Winter's series on my radar as I loved "Rage of Dragons". PLUS I skipped out on Jim Butcher's last two Desden books because they were sequels (and left a cliffhanger) but I plan to get back to them.
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