Ask the Author: Bronwyn Rodden
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Bronwyn Rodden
Hi, sorry to take so long, I've been away for a while. The lastest edition link is: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...
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Thank you for your interest.
Bronwyn Rodden
I've always wanted to go to Sicily, the setting for Andrea Camilleri's Inspector Montalbano books, but have not made it so far and under Covid, not sure I ever will now!
Bronwyn Rodden
The Yield, by Tara June Winch
The Ruin by Dervla McTiernan
Botanical Folk Tales by Lisa Schneidau
The Bell Jar by Silvia Plath
The Ruin by Dervla McTiernan
Botanical Folk Tales by Lisa Schneidau
The Bell Jar by Silvia Plath
Bronwyn Rodden
Joseph and Celice from Jim Crace's 'Being Dead'. This is a haunting novel which begins with the tragic death of the central characters, one with a tender hand laid on the other, working backwards throughout their lives in an interesting, non linear fashion, feeling more like life than novel. A wonderful read.
Bronwyn Rodden
Look back on something you have written to remind yourself that you can do it! Or, take a walk, do some kind of exercise, find a new book that inspires you. I am not quite like J D Robb (Nora Roberts) who says she never waits for inspiration, she just works 8 hours a day every day of the year. However, waiting around does not get anything written and you need to force yourself to write something if you are struggling, even if it is just a few lines. I heard that Hemingway used to leave a line hanging to finish the next day, just so he would have a hook to get started. There are whole books on this stuff, whatever works, works!
Bronwyn Rodden
Creating whole worlds and having a broad enough canvas to work on without restrictions. These may come from editors or publishers, but freedom to say anything is what gets books written.
Bronwyn Rodden
Every writer will tell you that reading is critical to a writer. I feel that reading widely is important, not just in the genre in which you work. Literary novels help to lift your game as a writer, humourous stories help you to not take it all too seriously and genres such as crime help a lot with learning about structure. Of course, they are enjoyable as well - I wouldn't be a writer if I didn't enjoy reading.
Bronwyn Rodden
I have just finished a final edit of a novel with the working title 'Life at Sea'. This story roams across centuries and continents and involves a meeting between an 18th Century female pirate and a contemporary woman from Australia. I suppose it is a time travelling novel, in the vein of David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas. My next project is a short story and then I will work some more on my second novel in the Roslyn Gordon detective series, set in the Blue Mountain of NSW, Australia.
Bronwyn Rodden
Everything has potential to inspire. Often it can be just some tiny silly thing that sets off a train of thought. Letting that train run is the hard bit, especially if the thought occurs when you are just about to fall asleep or when you are driving, etc. Find a way, that's all I can say.
Bronwyn Rodden
My most recent book is in fact a collection of short fiction, most of which has been published individually in literary journals in Australia and the U.K.
I've always been interested in the absurd in writing, such as Franz Kafka, and in art, such as some of the work by Surrealists. I didn't deliberately set out to write these pieces in this way, they grew out of some of the absurdities I noticed around me, such as the way we accept a certain way of living and working without consciously examining this.
Humour is another important aspect of all of my writing and I feel if its good enough for Shakespeare, its good enough for me.
I've always been interested in the absurd in writing, such as Franz Kafka, and in art, such as some of the work by Surrealists. I didn't deliberately set out to write these pieces in this way, they grew out of some of the absurdities I noticed around me, such as the way we accept a certain way of living and working without consciously examining this.
Humour is another important aspect of all of my writing and I feel if its good enough for Shakespeare, its good enough for me.
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