Ask the Author: Malcolm Noble
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Malcolm Noble
Hi Jason. My first book was written while I was laid up, on doctor's ordeers in a hotel room on holiday, but I guess some of best work has grown out of ideas that have been in my head for some time but I've never got round to working on for a few years. All of my 'creative stuff' is done out of doors. I don't know why.
Malcolm Noble
The first sentence popped into my head. That became the first paragraph. After that, I got the notebooks out and started planning. It doesn't always work like that, but that's how Body in the Bicycle Shed grew.
Malcolm Noble
Listening to the odd things that people say.
Malcolm Noble
The first novel in a spin off series. Then, just for myself, a radio play (which will not see the light of day).
Malcolm Noble
Learn to write EXACTLY the book that you want to write, then don't compromise. As long as you are strict with yourself when you ask "Is this the book that I meant to write, to the word?", then you have done all you can.
Malcolm Noble
By miles and miles, my relationship with readers. Letters, email, cards, momento, teasing on twitter. I love their suggestions about new books in the series, or how they would like the characters to develop
Malcolm Noble
Accept the message that now is not the right time. Write something else, a diary, notebook, sci-fi or western (not my thing) and wait. Writers block for me is when my imagination or creative cooking has not caught up with the script. I insist that I write something every week just for myself, something that will see no reader. That seems like good preventative medicine.
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