Ask the Author: Jim Lemon
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Jim Lemon
Bloody footprints led away from the body on the living room floor. I realized that they were my own.
Jim Lemon
I get lots of ideas. If I can't get one out of my head, I know it's time to write it down. If it survives that, it may be a good story.
Jim Lemon
Honestly, I go and do something else. So far this terribly unmotivated cure has always worked.
Jim Lemon
Find a story that you really want to write. I tire quickly of books that are obviously written to have a gunfight at the beginning, an orgy at the end and a certain number of words in between.
Jim Lemon
Panning the mental sludge in my brain for any specks of gold that might have fallen in.
Jim Lemon
Another book. I'm hooked. The statistical analysis of a survey that would bore you paralytic. Our garden. Fixing things.
Jim Lemon
One of those sequences of events that happen in life. I said to my wife Juel, 'Imagine someone who inherits a waterfront home (a very big deal in Sydney) and doesn't want it'. This hungry thought attached itself to my brain and sucked a story out of it. I wasn't entirely passive, I had to do a lot of work.
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