Ask the Author: Chris Leicester
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Chris Leicester
Lies by T.M. Logan
Chris Leicester
Probably I’d go to outer space and look down at plant earth for myself
Chris Leicester
I gave my mother a long-awaited hug. I noticed that she’d lost weight, and as we broke our embrace, I saw her face begin to suddenly change.
Chris Leicester
'Charlie Banger's came from an idea that came to me when my second son was born. I was playing around with the idea of reincarnation in my mind and then wondered what would happen if this concept was taken to a different plain. What would happen if this new father truly believed that this baby was actually his father reborn. Then, driven by a media hype and an opportunist business man, what would happen if half the world believed it too?
Chris Leicester
As a kid at school I kept getting bugged by ideas for poems and so I'd write them down during my breaks and dinner times. As life went on the ideas kept coming so I decided I'd better accommodate them and get my pen out. As long as the ideas keep coming them the pen and the pc still have a use.
Chris Leicester
I'm working on a new book and a new play at the moment. I've got my latest play 'Hurricane Hill' on in London for a week in London this October. 'Florida Money' is the new book which is all about an inspector of insurance claims who has to take an unusual and unexpected route in his life. 'Married but lonely' is a new play scheduled for 2016.
Chris Leicester
My best advice is to keep at it and trust in your judgement whilst taking the advice of those who are qualified to give it. Be open to criticism from these wise people and most of all enjoy it whilst you explore this very interesting and rewarding new frontier. Treat rejection as a pesky fly that will probably whizz around your ears for a good while, but that will eventually be squashed. Just don't take it personally as it literally bugs you.
Chris Leicester
Having the freedom to explore worlds that don't necessarily exist - that's a really great thing. Its an old cliché perhaps but you can go anywhere in your own mind and this is a world that no one owns or controls; its yours. Story telling is greatly underrated I think and might well solve a lot of the world's problems if it was encouraged more. As a writer you have to see things from other people's perspectives to make sure your plot holds together. I believe that a lot of what we do wrong as human beings extends from not exercising this particular muscle enough or pretending that we don't have it.
Chris Leicester
I'm very fortunate that I don't suffer from writer's block - but far be it from me to say that I won't! When inspiration's a little under-powered however, I tend to do something that's not "booky" in any way. I take my mind off the subject and then in a couple of days, return to the task. This seems to do the trick. What I don't do is believe that a slight dull is a permanent black out because if that mind set takes hold then it very well might be.
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