Ask the Author: Richard Whittle
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Richard Whittle
Read everything you can -- books, magazine articles, newspapers (as long as we still have them), blogs, or anything else where one person is trying to communicate information, ideas or feelings. Think about why you like the writing that appeals to you most. When you write, imagine you're writing a letter to someone you know and care about. Try to grab that person's attention and hold it as you communicate the information, ideas or feelings you want them to grasp in the liveliest way you can.
Richard Whittle
When I finished writing my book The Dream Machine in 2009, I went to New York to visit my literary agent, who asked what I wanted to do next. I said I wasn't sure but I thought drones looked interesting. At the time, I knew very little about them. I thought at first I'd write a comprehensive book on "unmanned aerial vehicles," as many experts prefer to call them, but then I read an article in Air & Space Smithsonian magazine about ten aircraft that changed the world. One of the ten -- and the only drone -- was the Predator, and after I read that article, I knew the story I wanted to write: the story of the Predator and the origins of the drone revolution.
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