Ask the Author: Bob Bello
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Bob Bello
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Bob Bello
All of it happened to me, though not a century after I passed away ;-) That by itself is an endless plot. Godspeed!
Bob Bello
Sometimes it's dreams, other times it's daydreams, but most of the time it's just real memories brewing in my dead with fictionalized settings. Such as, what might've happened if this or that took place differently, or if he or she made a different choice and took another turn, etc. As Hemingway put it, "Always write from personal experience, or people will know that you're faking it." That might not be a good advice to sci-fi writers like me. However, even in sci-fi I always write about things that had happened to me. I call that "firsthand writing."
Bob Bello
STARCALL Anthology of Novelized Radio Dramas & Teleplays, an endless chain of stories about everything, everywhere... and everywhen. No kidding.
Bob Bello
"Never give up, never surrender!" --Galaxy Quest
P.S. Care less about rejection, mockery, of whatever BS on your way to realization. And remember, the best roses grow in manure!
P.S. Care less about rejection, mockery, of whatever BS on your way to realization. And remember, the best roses grow in manure!
Bob Bello
You are your own boss, of course. You work at your own leisure. You are also the judge, the jury, and the executioner (hopefully not your own), and you can legally "kill" anyone in your books who had ever wronged you. Once the Pope asked sked Michelangelo, "Why did you paint my treasurer in Hell o your mural? He complained to me and demanded you to take him out of there." The Maestro replied, "Oh, only God cat take him out of there." So, be happy that you can see your revenge in your books loooong before you die ;-)
Bob Bello
What's that? I have SO many plots and and synopses buzzing in my head that sometimes I think my brain is swimming in honey because my skull is an apiary (bee house). I need seven cat's lives to write them all down, or was it nine? Nah, 99, perhaps ;-)
Bob Bello
He looked around and his life passed him by like a bullet train. What he didn't expect was the light at the end of the tunnel.
Bob Bello
When I was a kid I always imagined my parents will lose me someday and I will end up on the nameless island of Robinson Crusoe. If I end up there, I hope I'll have a tablet with solar batteries, never to run out of paper, ink, batteries, hard drive, and the like. A parrot is a chatterbox must, but a finger-monkey would do, unless I really have a really intelligent A.I. in my tablet. Mr. Friday is welcome to tag along, but if I have a say in this, I'd rather prefer if it's Miss Fridea (or Frida, perhaps named Signora Viernes from Palermo). Everything else is option, so long there's fish in the sea and I have at lest two stones to make fire and roast my daily catch. What more a man needs in this wretched world, right?
Bob Bello
If I find any free time to read (spreading thin between writing, illustrating, and radio drama), I'd love to re-read Hemingway's short stories. They influence me nonstop, together with Ray Bradbury's "shorts" ;-)
Bob Bello
My whole life is a mystery. I was born premature, with asthma and baby leukemia, died in my mothers hands, then came back to life as the doctor was writing the death certificate. From then on, it has been a crazy ride, packed with mysteries, drama, action, adventure, and even exile, not to mention widowing at 24, having 5 kids, or living on 4 continents like a timeless vagabond. I'm trying to incorporate my life's story in all my writing, though fictionalized, not to bark at the wrong three or make some stray dog bite me ;-) That explains why my style is what I call "multi-genral" and why write on every possible topic in the universe.
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