Ask the Author: Roy Fox
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Roy Fox
Sure:
Cora answered the door to the two tired police officers; they showed her a warrant which allowed them to investigate her house for the missing person Simon Franklyn. She let them in with a smile, after all, she knew that the body wasn't anywhere near her house.
Or what about this:
Her last breath released and her daughter cried clutching the bedding beside her mother's hand. Her lips quivered, her eyes burned from tears, a hand touched the top of hers lightly; she took in breath fast from shock and looked up to her mother, but her mother's hand had not moved.
Hope that satisfies your hunger for horror.
R.F
Cora answered the door to the two tired police officers; they showed her a warrant which allowed them to investigate her house for the missing person Simon Franklyn. She let them in with a smile, after all, she knew that the body wasn't anywhere near her house.
Or what about this:
Her last breath released and her daughter cried clutching the bedding beside her mother's hand. Her lips quivered, her eyes burned from tears, a hand touched the top of hers lightly; she took in breath fast from shock and looked up to her mother, but her mother's hand had not moved.
Hope that satisfies your hunger for horror.
R.F
Roy Fox
Sometimes I don't. Sometimes I force myself to sit and stare at page until words come.
I'm my most inspired when I'm really into something that I am writing. The more I geek out about my work, the more I can envision it. Usually this happens when I believe in what I am writing, when I've been writing the same story daily and my brain has clicked into it being somewhat real. So that when I'm away from the story, even then, it sits in the back of my mind and throws me ideas whilst I have those moments of reflections/daydreams/boredom throughout my day. So I'll be walking in a park or laying in bed and my brain will go "here's a cool thing to add to the story" and then I'll be excited to greet the page the next day.
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I'm my most inspired when I'm really into something that I am writing. The more I geek out about my work, the more I can envision it. Usually this happens when I believe in what I am writing, when I've been writing the same story daily and my brain has clicked into it being somewhat real. So that when I'm away from the story, even then, it sits in the back of my mind and throws me ideas whilst I have those moments of reflections/daydreams/boredom throughout my day. So I'll be walking in a park or laying in bed and my brain will go "here's a cool thing to add to the story" and then I'll be excited to greet the page the next day.
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Roy Fox
Honestly... Write what you want to read and what you need to get out of your system. I think I'd advise this to anyone who creates. Create something that you want to see, hear, smell, taste, and touch anything that you'd love to be in this world, but haven't quite seen your own version of it yet.
Never write for any reason other than for yourself and those you love first. I've seen so many people that look at it for money, or fame... I don't know, it just feels like the wrong approach to me. It's a way to express yourself for yourself. If you create something and nobody notices, it doesn't matter if it wasn't for them in the first place.
So my advice is to write what you'd love to read.
R.F
Never write for any reason other than for yourself and those you love first. I've seen so many people that look at it for money, or fame... I don't know, it just feels like the wrong approach to me. It's a way to express yourself for yourself. If you create something and nobody notices, it doesn't matter if it wasn't for them in the first place.
So my advice is to write what you'd love to read.
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Roy Fox
Don't think there is any mystery within my own life... Maybe the plot would be finding the mystery of trying to find a mystery only to find that there is no mystery which, I'm not sure about you, but that seems pretty mysterious to me.
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Roy Fox
That's a great question, one that I really am having to think on. I think because I like a lot of horror fiction, the fancy of going to a world such as Stephen King's, though cool, also kind of sounds terrifying.
I could cheat and say my own world (as Fenoglio said in the film Inkheart when seeing his book world come to life "it's like walking into my own imagination" and who doesn't want to do that at times?) I currently have two worlds that I'd love to develop. One that has Quarter-Life Crisis and The Next Best Story. The other has A Haunting Experiment. It would be hard to choose exactly which one without delving deeper into the nuances of these worlds and spoiling some things... So I won't state a preference.
The other answer I could give to this is that of the comics. Personally I'd choose the DC world because Batman, but any of the comic worlds would be great. Who would say no to being in a world where super-powers exist? Even if I didn't have them, that would be truly awesome!
But I think the true answer here is put me in the fictional world of the Beano.
R.F
I could cheat and say my own world (as Fenoglio said in the film Inkheart when seeing his book world come to life "it's like walking into my own imagination" and who doesn't want to do that at times?) I currently have two worlds that I'd love to develop. One that has Quarter-Life Crisis and The Next Best Story. The other has A Haunting Experiment. It would be hard to choose exactly which one without delving deeper into the nuances of these worlds and spoiling some things... So I won't state a preference.
The other answer I could give to this is that of the comics. Personally I'd choose the DC world because Batman, but any of the comic worlds would be great. Who would say no to being in a world where super-powers exist? Even if I didn't have them, that would be truly awesome!
But I think the true answer here is put me in the fictional world of the Beano.
R.F
Roy Fox
Currently I am working on a novel-sized sequel to one of my published stories. This has led me to also write a short story that has been rattling around in my head since 2019. I can't give much more detail on this, but please keep an eye out for my monthly blog as I will be putting updates out on that as soon as I am able to give them.
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Roy Fox
I got the idea of A Quarter-Life Crisis when I was going through my own version of a quarter-life crisis. I found early adult life to be so difficult. You leave the comfort of school/college/university and immediately you are in the world of work. Some of us (those a lot more prepared or perhaps those less fortunate that don't have a choice) will have fallen into adult responsibilities at a younger age and those responsibilities would have progressed as they grew (hopefully in a healthy way), I on the other hand did not get this, so when I faced adulthood it was like a slap to the face and a shock to the system. I wanted to share this experience the best that I could. Share all of the varieties of things that can happen to us through the characters in a somewhat caricature way to relieve some levity of the mature and slightly more dire themes. It took a long time to write this to the point where I was happy with it and felt it to be as close as I could get it to what I wanted. Which were themes about the loss of innocence, the progressive complexities of relationships, the psychological challenges of being in your twenties, and something else that to mention on here would in-fact be a bit of a spoiler. I hope these themes can be seen. As, for me, it was started as a companion for dealing with my own quarter-life crisis.
Roy Fox
Seeing the faces of those I love after they have read or test-read some of my stories. Even if it is bad, it is nice to see the visual feedback of my daydreams.
Roy Fox
I write what the block is telling me to write instead. The only time I get writers block is when I am trying to control a story too much instead of allowing it to flow naturally. It's like walking against the current of a river. It's a better idea to have faith in it and walk with it.
Roy Fox
The Fisherman by. John Langan
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