Ask the Author: Stuart Larner
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Stuart Larner
AA Dhand's "Streets of Drakness". A crime thriller set in Bradford. Hero is an Asian . Three plot lines intertwined so you have to keep your concentration whilst you read. Well- described action sequences. Set in real places. Very realistic gangsterland.
Stuart Larner
I followed advice from a man whose autograph I had obtained in person but was illegible. I didn't know who he was at the time. It wasn't until later in my life I found out who this helpful and inspiring person was.
Stuart Larner
Regarding the novel "Hope", Rosie and I used to see clients with these kinds of problems as part of our professional work as social worker and clinical psychologist. However, we were very much working within the therapeutic system in those days. We then began to reflect on what it would be like if people who had been victims could be empowered to work with and slightly outside the system using modern technology. Empowered, but not totally vigilante.
Stuart Larner
I have a set routine of writing time each day, but I am occasionally called to writing duty by my subconscious in the middle of the night.
Stuart Larner
We are thinking about a sequel to "Hope" and I am also working on short stories and poems.
Stuart Larner
Keep writing. If you give up then you won't get anywhere. Read others work to keep you focussed on what is good writing. Learn what is possible and impossible. Join a critique group - not just a writing readaround group.
Stuart Larner
Being able to sort out ideas about human life. To write something that you think is interesting at the time, and then find out later that it holds a great secret to help you live. Maybe it might be of interest to others as well, but that is a second stage process fraught with much danger, and one that distracts from the creative moment.
Stuart Larner
I go for a walk, or do some other physical activity, but not think about writing in that time. Or I might brainstorm ideas by just scribbling anything - the main thing is not to reject any idea or phras , but just to save everything. Eventually I might get a couple of ideas on disparate scarps of paper from different days that I might be able to match up.
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