Ask the Author: L. Douglas Garrett
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L. Douglas Garrett
How is it that a guy named Garrett, who looks like he does, has lived longer in one neighborhood of a rural-turned-suburban town in Japan than he has in any other place in his now 6 decades of life?
L. Douglas Garrett
Blood doesn't splash up onto walls like waves on a shore, and it doesn't move of its own accord. But this did.
L. Douglas Garrett
This is fun one... I'll go with Haggard's Africa, and I think I could take the same inspiration for a life that Selous gave to Haggard's characters.
L. Douglas Garrett
The Laundry Files series by Charles Stross!
L. Douglas Garrett
Haven't really blocked up ever. Slow days I grind and am happy with a couple of paragraphs of progress. But get something down every day, even if you'll have to fix it in Edit later.
L. Douglas Garrett
I like to tell a good story. I happen to have some I haven't been able to tell anyone, for a long time. Fiction lets me tell those stories.
L. Douglas Garrett
Be creative. Be brave. Finish the damn manuscript and get a book you are proud of out there, then learn lessons from that experience.
L. Douglas Garrett
I am writing a new novel that will continue the story of the Main Character from Remember When. It is set in '84 and tells of an entire espionage operation from concept to conclusion.
L. Douglas Garrett
I talk a lot about that here on my personal weblog https://ldgarrettfiction.blogspot.com... but a short answer would be: I seek out something from the era and topic I am to write about (music; a photo; a keepsake) and use that to help get me in the right mindset to create fiction about it.
L. Douglas Garrett
As referred to in the novella Remember When, I actually was inspired by having a video of a set from a music concert from 1983, and an inquiry about whether I was there. The answer to that is "no", but it got me thinking about a "what-if" fiction story.
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