Ask the Author: Christopher Barnard
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Christopher Barnard
"Catch Me If You Can." I'd then steal the money printing press, put in a year or so of hard graft, then return to this reality, and purchase the Caribbean. Like, all of it.
Christopher Barnard
I read books. And I daydream. I listen to music on headphones whilst trimming hedges whilst up ladders - and other semi-heroic endeavours. Like walking the doggy. Not a euphemism.
Christopher Barnard
The direct sequel to my first book "Rewind". The series is called "I, Charlie." Don't have a working title as yet but might go with "Reset," though I think these titles might be overused (and nothing to do with the current conception of "reset").
Christopher Barnard
The first manuscript I wrote - I was trying to build a story around a very specific set of questions. It was like trying to hammer a square peg into a round hole, and the result was messy. When I decided to write the second book in 1st person POV, it freed me enormously to just let my brain run, which seems to be the best way it gets working. Everyone is different. Experiment with nonsense essays, in different styles. Find what you're comfortable with. Otherwise the process might be more painful than a root canal.
Christopher Barnard
It means you have a permanent excuse for everything.
Christopher Barnard
I go for long walks and purposely turn my attention away from anything to do with writing. I look around and notice other things. Usually the solution pops into my head. The next best thing is to decide that I'm not going to force it, and I find a novel I've not read. Reading sparks creative juices. Also long showers in the morning. Think it's a womb-thing.
Christopher Barnard
The question of who steals all my socks is a pressing mystery, but I suspect it would make a dull story. There was the story with the guy who was found welded to a metal fence on my property (years ago) but I think it was lightening. So not really much mystery in my life. I suppose the biggest upset happened early on when my mother had several life-threatening hemorrhages when she was pregnant with me. But that was no mystery. Only biology.
Christopher Barnard
In November 2020, a friend told me that November was "write a novel in a month," and since I was sitting on my butt I might as well give it a shot. I knew that if I gave the subject too much thought it would never happen, so I decided to start with the first thing that popped into my head once I sat down at my laptop. Turned out the first image I had was of a man dressed in summer clothes, lying unconscious next to a glacier. And like that, Charlie was born.
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