Ask the Author: Umberto Tosi
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Umberto Tosi
I read a lot, study history and mythology, and listen to people's stories. Ideas pop up. Most of them don't take me anywhere special, but some drive me way out of town.
Umberto Tosi
I always wondered if Ophelia really drowned. Queen Gertrude's second hand account of her falling off a bough into brook always sounded fishy to me. And reading her lines, before and after her mad scenes, I always thought there was more to her than a victim. I kept trying to shake the idea, but she kept revisiting me, until I gave in about a year ago, and dove in to that stream myself to see what happened.
Umberto Tosi
I'm back working on a project I started a year ago, a time travel novel about artists, models and revolutionaries now at in 1870s Paris.
Umberto Tosi
The late great fantasy novelist and screenwriter Richard Matheson once told me, when I asked him his advice about a problem I had with a publisher, "Keep writing. It's the best revenge."
Umberto Tosi
Finishing a story or a book, even a page. Next best thing, when one of my new books arrives fresh from the printer and I can pick it up and open it anywhere. Okay, it doesn't make it more real than if it's an ebook or even i my head -- metaphysically, that is -- but it sure feels good.
Umberto Tosi
I keep on writing daily, even if it's one paragraph. Mostly I turn to background, research and imagining my characters. Of course, often this becomes more self-distraction, as I meander through the Internet, read various books I have going, take a walk, play music, and so fortth. Then there's always the refrigerator and I like to cook. At least I can create something reliably in the kitchen and then, better yet, eat it! I remind myself of what Alice Weaver Flaherty said in "The Midnight Disease," that only a writer can have writer's block. That would make it a good thing.
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