Ask the Author: Julia Draper
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Julia Draper
Walking: the peace of the countryside allows my mind to free itself of daily concerns and wander creatively.
Julia Draper
Being able to choose your own hours, and to affect people's emotions. I love receiving messages about how my writing has moved people, even changed their lives in some cases.
Julia Draper
Write every day if you can. You can always go back, rewrite, change things at will. You'll never complete a novel if you don't keep at it.
Julia Draper
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Julia Draper
I've always written, since childhood - numerous articles, short stories that have been published, and a book about bastle houses, reprinted several times. I've been inspired by circumstance, by injustice ... even by the horror of caged hens! Enfilade was inspired by contemporary photograph, my next novel, Kind of Old, by the question of human autonomy over death.
Julia Draper
I saw a photograph, taken in 1915, of Northumbrian farm horses with their owners, standing silently in Bellingham market place. They were about to go to the station, thence to France, to pull gun carriages and supplies. It moved me beyond words, and eventually became the cover of Enfilade.
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