Ask the Author: Norman Revill
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Norman Revill
C J Sansom's 'Heartstone'.
Norman Revill
Carry on. As Dickens, or G B Shaw, or whoever, said, the secret of writing is the application of the seat of the pants to the chair. You have to do it and keep on doing it. Something always comes. Go for a walk, or cook a curry by all means, but never forget, it's a diversionary tactic; you have to get back to the chair..
Norman Revill
Surprising yourself every day with what you get down on paper. Where it comes from is the greatest mystery.
Norman Revill
Do it. Talent's important but persistence is vital. You have to finish. Worry about whether it's any good later. And everything takes time; usually far longer than you ever anticipated.
Norman Revill
I'm currently halfway through the second book in the ART PENGRIFFIN series. It has a new baddie, the devious, shape-shifting half-sister of Merlin, Morgan le Fey, who sets out to trap Art to steal his newly-acquired magic powers, but is a hopeless time-traveller who hates music. Its working title is AP + THE SEASON OF THE WITCH.
Norman Revill
I collect ideas from everywhere - magazines, movies,books, things I see and hear around me, past experiences - and store them away in notebooks. Ideas turn me on. An idea in a book bought from a charity shop on holiday in Cornwall, became my first screenplay. Finding a four-leafed-clover on the field at a re-enactment of the Battle of Barnet, led to my interest in charismatic King Edward IV and the bloody Wars of the roses.
Norman Revill
I'd always wanted to write about Merlin and magic and find a way of bringing it up-to-date. Working with director Clive Fleury on series ideas for UK tv aimed at young teens, the idea appealed, but not as an 'old man with a beard'. So we made him a modern, music-mad boy approaching his 14th birthday, who discovers his father was the famous wizard. The pilot script MERLIN JNR. attracted a lot of interest but the BBC decided to go ahead with its own 'Young Merlin' idea. Loath to lose years of work and convinced we had an original idea young teens would love, I turned the pilot script into a novel. ART PENGRIFFIN + THE CURSE OF THE FOUR was published as an ebook and then in paperback at the end of 2012, to excellent reviews.
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