Ask the Author: J.S. Watts
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J.S. Watts
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As a reader, I choose books according to the mood I’m in, what’s available on my bookshelf or in my local bookshop, whether I know or like the author’s work and whether the back cover blurb makes the book sound interesting. What I’m currently writing may also colour my choice of reading material.
As a writer, I choose what I write according to what’s going on in my head and what idea tells me it needs writing. Usually, it also tells me if it needs to be a poem, a short story or my next novel. If it doesn’t, I can waste a lot of time trying to work it out for myself.
As a reader, I choose books according to the mood I’m in, what’s available on my bookshelf or in my local bookshop, whether I know or like the author’s work and whether the back cover blurb makes the book sound interesting. What I’m currently writing may also colour my choice of reading material.
As a writer, I choose what I write according to what’s going on in my head and what idea tells me it needs writing. Usually, it also tells me if it needs to be a poem, a short story or my next novel. If it doesn’t, I can waste a lot of time trying to work it out for myself.
J.S. Watts
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J.S. Watts
I like all my characters, even the less pleasant ones, but Abel, the anti-hero of A Darker Moon, is certainly the most complex character in the book. It is his uncertainty and the potential darkness within him that drives the book. Moreover, as the narrator of his own story, everything we know, and don't know, about what takes place comes from Abel. His search for the most important woman in his life is at the heart of the book, both in terms of its lighter moments and its darker ones.
J.S. Watts
I was lucky in that I didn't experience writer's block when writing A Darker Moon. There were difficult places and times when the words didn't flow as quickly as I wanted, but I always knew where the story was headed and where the darkness lay.
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