Ask the Author: John Whitaker
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John Whitaker
Winds were light but crisp enough to move Marion and Arthur gently toward the South African Cape on their sixty foot yacht. They had just sighted Table Rock poking up above the horizon when the Orca's strike took a metre out if the centre of their hull.
John Whitaker
Lee Childs: Personal
Chad Pelley: Every Little Thing
Bianca Marais: Hum if You Don't Know the Words
Chad Pelley: Every Little Thing
Bianca Marais: Hum if You Don't Know the Words
John Whitaker
Very difficult to give an offhand response. Sometimes it's a thought I have before getting up which gives me a clue as to how to move a scene on. Sometimes it's just a feeling that a character is getting lost and I need to move him to another place. Sometimes it's a nudge in an e-mail from my editor that he needs the next draft in by Friday.
John Whitaker
Working on the second book in the Dominance trilogy. David Reason going into Spain to sniff out a possible revolution instigated by Dieter and his Dominance evil cohort. Coming out this fall.
John Whitaker
First, find a genre you with which you are comfortable, then start writing and don't ever give up, even when you get discouraged
John Whitaker
You get to go into another world with the hero as your alter-ego.
John Whitaker
I have two kinds of writers' block. The most common occurs when I am in middle of writing a scene and my mind stops producing useful words. To overcome this, I minimize the text, open my Bridge or Chess program and play for a while. If this doesn't work, I leave the room and try to get my wife to join me for a cup of coffee.
The second is more serious and happens when I just can't think of where the plot should go to. The cure, go to a movie or the beach, read a book or just stop trying for a while until inspiration returns.
The second is more serious and happens when I just can't think of where the plot should go to. The cure, go to a movie or the beach, read a book or just stop trying for a while until inspiration returns.
John Whitaker
In 1995 Nelson Mandela had recently been elected President. The press was full of news about the new freedom for South African blacks. I thought, some whites must resent their loss of supremacy, and the plot to assassinate Mandela was born.
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