Ask the Author: Nick Richards
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Nick Richards
Bit of both I think! It's so cringe inducing when you think back about being a teenager and how dramatic everything in your life seemed to be. Cant resist making fun of teenagers! Having said that I will soon have teenagers myself so I'm bracing for impact.
So glad you like the book!
So glad you like the book!
Nick Richards
Great question! The pros have definitely been making each other laugh! We share the same sense of humour so that has made it a lot of fun! The biggest obstacle as we have gotten older is probably time. There just isn't enough of it! The grandest AHA moment?! On a side note I actually finally got to see AHA the band last year!! Those guys are holding up pretty well I must say! I think maybe the biggest AHA moment as you put it was going from being linear date wise to chopping around with the time periods. Made it a lot more interesting. By the way the feedback we got from Goodread's readers to tone down the toilet humour was very helpful!
Nick Richards
You wont get it if you write everyday. You will be so focussed it will just come to you. When you aren't writing you will or should be naturally thinking about your book and what is going to happen next so it will all flow out of you when you sit down. And write it down even if it is rubbish. You can always delete it.
Nick Richards
Immortality. Ok that's a glib answer, I know. Firstly, we aren't famous or rich from writing. And we aren't dead yet either so far as I know. The best thing about writing for us was making each other laugh. We created the characters together and sharing the writing process was very enjoyable. We had a basic rule: if anything didn't make us laugh it didn't go in the book.
Nick Richards
Basically, read and write everyday. I'm taking a break from writing for the moment which helps. Yes, breaks are good. Long extended breaks are fine as well. It took us 14 years or something ridiculous to finish the first book. The longest break was 3 years when we wrote maybe 50 words. This kind of flies in the face of the earlier advice about writing everyday. Actually, no it reinforces it. Write everyday. Keep breaks to a minimum!
Nick Richards
The follow up to Windy and Chatty & the adventures thereof. It is to be called Windy and Chatty "For King and Country". Not very original I grant you but it is the most fitting title all things considered. You will have to read it to understand that "all things considered" comment.
Nick Richards
Again, to be honest, it comes quite easily when you like the characters of your book. I like the fact that they can generally say whatever they like and think whatever they want. In real life no one can read your thoughts, other than Yuri Geller, so no one knows what is really going in there. Not a lot it would seem, in any event.
Nick Richards
Well the story was always set up to deal with the protagonists' lives. When we first dreamt Windy and Chatty up they were older and living in Africa somewhere being generally horrible and whatnot. When we decided to go back and chart their lives we couldn't do it in one book unless we were going to do some type of Epic like The Waltons. The Waltons? Not sure why I thought of the Waltons.
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