Ask the Author: Marcello Garofalo
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Marcello Garofalo
Being a (film) journalist since many years I have to tell you that I don't suffer of the "Writer's Block": I like to write, I collect many notes about the story and the dialogues of my characters and so generally I know exactly what I want to write. Therefore if I want to relax myself after some writing, I go to do something else, like cooking or designing images in Photoshop.
Marcello Garofalo
The Best Thing is to Bring My Characters to Life. A propos of my novel "The Sizzling Nights of the Diabolical Dr.Carelli", regarding the characters I was interested in looking for a certain originality for each of them, reserving them a precise character not attributable to others already read or already seen before, a language and attitudes also that, in keeping with this, they were not immediately foreseeable.
Analogous speech is true for the plot: the wires must be all connected in the final, as well as a number of surprises to be guaranteed. Entertain, give fun, surprise with the malice of an "Adults’ Fairy Tale" narrated for the first time.
Analogous speech is true for the plot: the wires must be all connected in the final, as well as a number of surprises to be guaranteed. Entertain, give fun, surprise with the malice of an "Adults’ Fairy Tale" narrated for the first time.
Marcello Garofalo
Ask Yourself A Question And Give Yourself An Answer:
What's the difference between an amateur writer and a professional writer?
What's the difference between an amateur writer and a professional writer?
Marcello Garofalo
I'm starting to think about a sequel to "The Sizzling Nights of the Diabolical Dr. Carelli": I have already elaborated an interesting plot for it...
Marcello Garofalo
Writing is a profession for me. I do that every day. I get inspired by everthing belongs to the real life. Particularly for "The Sizzling Nights of the Diabolical Dr. Carelli" I I was struck by a statement I read a time ago by a film director about the “fantastic genre”: he said that "to be fascinating and therefore also more believable, the fantastic must be supported by many facts and information derived from the reality: the more it will be enriched by that , more over the viewer and/or the reader will be catched by the absurdity of the narrated stories.
Marcello Garofalo
I got the idea for my book "The Sizzling Nights of the Diabolical Dr. Carelli" from my passion for the horror movies and for the brilliant comedies. It's natural, being a film critic that the novel resides in my specific training, but I've been very careful not to "play" with the quotes and the tributes that I find annoyingly impersonal and decorative. Instead, I like these "emotional memories" are absorbed in the story naturally, just as Tarantino does with his films, which, though, for example, he makes homage in various ways to Leone, Corbucci, Jack Hill, the Shaw Brothers and so on ... then he writes and directs HIS OWN film, where every “tribute” is canceled and regenerated by his writing and by his artistic direction, becoming then just a film by Quentin Tarantino.
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