Ask the Author: Edwin Tipple
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Edwin Tipple
They say write about what you know. Seems good sense, though I get the impression that 'some' writers do not know about much and is why they had to get someone else to write a book for them.
I knew about trains from the steam age but didn't want to write a train spotter's novel. Instead, I used a man from the world's oldest police force as the main character: DI Crosier.
I knew about trains from the steam age but didn't want to write a train spotter's novel. Instead, I used a man from the world's oldest police force as the main character: DI Crosier.
Edwin Tipple
Ideas just arrive. I have to get a version of them on paper. Just a paragraph is enough to set me going.
Edwin Tipple
Two works. First a second amusing look at Thai life but this time with extra material like 'what's the coup all about.'
Edwin Tipple
Give it a go, take in a certain amount of advise but don't go reading everything to do with writing that lands in your in-box - it can just get in the way.
Edwin Tipple
Hoping that one day, just on one day, you are going to hit on something big.
Edwin Tipple
Put it away for a week.
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